Spain's Costa Del Sol was a haven for the idle who knew how to spend money lavishly when they had it, and whom to ask for more when they ran out. It was home to American playboy Robbie Hartshorn and his wife Andrea who'd flown there fifteen years before for a few months in the sun and stayed there ever since. They were paid a monthly stipend to do their drinking on foreign shores.

It was Robbie's disappearance that brought international private eye Chester Drum to Spain. He'd been hired to pursue the missing playboy, to follow the trail which led to Ruy Fuentes, the bullfighter Robbie wanted his daughter not to marry, and to the cave where Ruy lived with a gypsy woman who had a greater reason than Robbie Hartshorn's to prevent the marriage...