They were the Beach Boys for real in a paneled Studebaker station wagon with the long boards hanging out the back. Mary Jane and beer before breakfast. The Beatles and Joan Baez on the stereo. Theodore Roosevelt Crenshaw, "Best Heart-Throb" of the class of #xE2;#xAC;#xDC;68 and his bud, Tommie Tees, pursuing the endless summer until one day the left-handed drummer of their garage band, "TT and the Tough Titties" comes home from Vietnam in a body bag. Then Teddy, second-born prodigal son of a community-minded Manhattan Beach dentist and his wife, a future city councilwoman, gives up drinking beer before breakfast and begins to work on getting what he wants out of life.He meets Pamela White, a sharp 38-year-old business woman whose sexual hunger cannot be drowned in bourbon. She makes him an offer he can#xE2;#xAC;"t refuse.At nearly the same time he runs into Beverly Simons, a slightly neurotic, rather plump high school classmate with whom he once had a one-night stand. She is now widowed with a strikingly beautiful six-year-old daughter.Next we flash forward seven years and discover Jerry Weinstein, Esq., a rotund, gourmand bachelor lawyer specializing in criminal law getting a call from an old friend, Mrs. Dottie Crenshaw, Teddy#xE2;#xAC;"s mother. Weinstein learns that Teddy is about to be arrested for the murder of Bradford Vincente, the 17-year-old son of pizza king Tony "Pan-a-Mint" Vincente of Palos Verdes. The motive appears to be jealousy since Brad and Teddy apparently were vying for the affections of Teri Simmons, now a beautiful, precocious 13-year-old.Set in the South Bay beach communities of suburban Los Angeles some thirty years ago, the novel is a lurid tale of murder, lust and the inevitable consequences of ravenous appetites that can never be satisfied.

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