Crofts' ghostwriting career has involved writing for dictators, politicians, arms dealers and billionaires, and visits to palaces and tax havens in Monaco and Bermuda. His experiences led to "Secrets of the Italian Gardner", a novel set inside a dictator's palace during the Arab Spring, narrated by the dictator's ghostwriter. The same ghostwriter features in a second novel by Crofts, 'What Lies Around Us', this time becoming embroiled in the American celebrity political scene when paid a million dollars by a Silicon Valley billionaire to ghost the autobiography of a Hollywood superstar.