Yet the coalition has made little effort to attack corruption, and has wasted energy on bickering and back-stabbing, messily dismissing one would-be reforming prime minister, Radu Vasile, from its own ranks last December.
In between all the plotting and back-stabbing, the characters blunder into a broad array of financial- and estate-planning disasters, from bad investments and messy trusts to poor business-succession plans and power struggles following health crises.
He said Mr Bell was looking for something on the back seat of the vehicle they were in when Mr Brown suddenly felt a stabbing pain in the back of his neck.