When dashing Swiss banker (and secret MI6 agent) Mark Conway walked into the Gloucestershire shop she worked in, divorcee Carolyn Woods fell head over heels and they began planning a life together. There was just one problem, she tells award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright: ‘Conway’ was actually notorious conman Mark Acklom, who span a web of lies including taking fake calls from the King of Spain, and slowly tore Carolyn’s life apart, isolating her from her friends and robbing her of £850,000.