Martin Long is one of the, perhaps the most, many prominent members of the pseudo-aristocracy largely running the town of Ewing Bay through monopolies over the town's industries; legal and illegal. Long, however, is a rare example of one of the pseudo-aristocracy being able to court the image of a sophisticate easily and naturally; this was rather down to his presence in a family very much at home in the upper echelons of society and his own interest in pre-war works of literature related to organised crime and other work featuring daring, dashing rogues as anti-heroes. As a result, Long has largely adopted the values and style of some of these characters, fictional or otherwise, as part of his own persona, all the while attempting to reconcile his own often immoral behaviour with the larg