THE POLITICS OF PLEASURE
by Mark Russell
Jay Goldman is an Australian chemist working at a US Army chemical centre in Maryland. From a classified file on the centre’s computer, Goldman learns that his late father was secretly killed by General Turner, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. General Turner learns that Goldman has physical evidence which implicates the general’s hand in the murder. With his political career rapidly on the rise, Turner sends a team of mercenaries to kill Goldman. Versed in martial arts, Goldman escapes, only to become romantically involved with Michelle, an attractive ex-model planning to relaunch her career through an upcoming fashion shoot in Italy. Goldman is desperate to go abroad with her. The couple’s new-found relationship is sorely tested in Washington DC, San Francisco, and finally in Los Angeles, where General Turner unleashes an explosive confrontation ...