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In the faded glamour of a British seaside town, a man sits alone in a shabby bedroom.

It's cold and damp.

Almost every house around here has black mould.

The only light comes from his computer screen.

This is where we find James Parker.

Mid-50s, wispy grey beard living on benefits. Hour after hour, day after day,

he sits here, clicking through websites, solving tedious little puzzles because he thinks he'll win

a reward. The smoke from another rolled cigarette hangs in the air.

To anyone looking in, this was just another life being lived in quiet desperation,

in Britain's most deprived town, where men have the shortest lives in the country.

But then, one day,

James Parker notices something.

Something that shouldn't be possible.

He stares at the screen.

What he's seeing, it can't be real. But it is. James Parker, a man who has

very little, has just stumbled upon something that would give him everything, a secret that will

change his life forever and drag those close to him down a path

none of them could have predicted.

Some secrets make you rich, some secrets destroy you.

This one does both.

This is coining it.

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