Later novelised under the same name (and, later again, published under West's actual name, as The Concubine), McCready Moves In follows an out-of-work oilman who falls in with a mysterious businessman.
'Mick McCreary is an oilman out of a job. His only possessions are a plane ticket to Singapore, a month's pay in Indonesian rupiahs and the luck of the Irish.
'When the mysterious Mr Rubensohn approaches him with the offer of a breathtaking salary for a drilling operation on a remote island—no questions asked—he thinks that luck is running with him once more.
'But then he meets the beautiful Lisette, and within twenty-four hours he is involved in murder, intrigue and an international fraud of frightening proportions.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).