The giant insurance company that hired Trace didn't do it because of his sobriety, loyalty or high moral principles. They paid him for cases that no other investigator could come close to cracking-and this one, here in sin city, Las Vegas, was right up Trace's shadowy alley. It involved a collection of Beautiful People with ugly secrets that included the Countess Felicia Fallaci who couldn't count her own lovers, a blond porn bombshell over-endowed with everything but brains, an Italian pretty boy who dedicated his idle life to drugs, a German baron with bizarre appetites, and a private-eye pimp with a string of Vegas sex machines. And right in the center of that circle of sophisticated sickies was a murdered man of mystery, a missing million in jewels, and a killer bent on teasing Trace to death..."