Hollywood fixer and sometime-private-eye Rick Holman certainly has his hands full (in more ways than one) in this sleaze/crime pulp by perennial pulp author Carter Brown.
Cults and cunnilingus, ordeals and orgy's, lies and lust, bribes and bondage - that pretty much sums up The Swingers (published 1980), the entertaining and surprisingly well-written sleaze pulp which, manages to channel some of the 'better' works of infamous Orrie Hitt.
Holman is hired by a movie studio to look into a case of blackmail of one their high powered execs by a bunch of 'degenerate sex addicts'. What Holman soon realizes is the exec is running on the same fumes as those who are trying to blackmail her and before long he's consumed by a wealth of wanton women, naked bodies, and all the copulation he cant stand (or lay, as it were).
There's a nice amount of depth to what otherwise would've been a relatively shallow plot with hired guns, the mob, and a couple of tasty twists to turn the story on its head more than once.
Unlike some of my recent Rick Holman reads, this book feels like a true Holman mystery and is certainly one of the better ones written by Carter Brown.
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