When Britain joined the Common Market, Martin Lloyd joined the UK Immigration Service. For the next 24 years he rubbed shoulders with royalty and rascals alike while stamping passports in the company of scholars, schemers and scatterbrains. This colourful narrative traces Martin's progress from Heathrow's Terminal Three, when Concorde was a novelty, through to the first waves of political asylum refugees and the complexities of the manning of the United Kingdom's first real international land border - the Channel Tunnel.