Mike Shayne had no hankering for travel, but his friend Tim Rourke was rotting in a South American jail, charged with blowing up a local strong man. So Mike hopped a jet - and landed over his head in a sea of sensuous suspects.

There was a girl revolutionary who believed in sexual freedom now... a lady painter who made an art of love... a widow who lived on cold champagne and warm male flesh... and when Mike finally came up for air, he found himself in a deadly trap that threatened to make this, his wildest caper, his very last...