Imperetrix Von Kaiser-Czarski may be the richest guy in the world, and somebody is systematically robbing all of his banking institutions. He chooses that the best course of action can be to create a thief to catch a thief, and the very best thief of these all is one Slippery Jim diGriz. Sceptical initially, Jim can be soon earned over from the guarantee of four million credits each day, plus expenses. Jim and Angelina enlist assistance from their twin sons, Adam and Bolivar, and Adam’ computers shortly find the normal link between every one of the robberies: whenever a loan company was hit, there is a circus in town. The same circus. What better way to find out about the goings on among circus-folk than to become one of these? And so Slippery Jim turns into grasp magician Mighty Marvell, and soon discovers that – just like him – everyone isn’t quite what they appear.