An American in Europe with a hot $100,000 and a burning desire for the best of everything...An elegant rogue who guides him through a world of high-priced pleasures and high-risk gambles...A beautiful titled Englishwoman who cavorts with him along the razor's edge of the law and the velvet ecstasies of the flesh...Put them together and you have the most irresistible adventure Irwin Shaw has ever written.
Ex-pilot Douglas Grimes seeks to spend his remaining years in quiet solitude as a hotel night clerk but is thrust back into a life of action when he discovers one hundred thousand dollars and a corpse