Lawrence Colby, ex-paratrooper, writer, swindler, and smuggler, and Martine, sweet and lovely, who can lie without an accent in two languages, plunge into a caper involving: a best-selling lady novelist who has stopped writing about sex and started enjoying it; the lady's manager, who needs just fifty more pages of torrid prose to collect one million dollars; and Miss Kendall Flanagan, six feet of pulchritudinous female, with a talent for writing and an even greater talent for loving. Together they create a story of romance, larceny, and very blunt homicide.