Oh, to be Mr Clean

A literary gem has come to the attention of Backbites.

This involves possibly the most ridiculously desperate advertising ploy ever construed.

Man of the moment, Clive Holgate (pictured left), had a glimpse of freedom this week.

Emerging triumphant from the High Court after a lengthy fight to clear his name, the bespectacled former civil servant was seen grasping at a novel moments after he was acquitted.

The pack of journalists gasped - Holgate's version of his Road to Freedom so soon? Not quite.

The book in question is Tartan Dragon. The author - John McLean - is a friend of Holgate's lawyer, Alexander King, Backbites can reveal.