A middle-aged crime boss smugly reflects back from 1999 narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood in Swinging 60's London he aped his mod boss Freddie Mays and seemed to do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie's supremacy and especially his tall bird. The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing scheming to be Gangster No. 1.