Bright Like Blood

the long version

Synopsis - Scott Pride had always loved Beverly Ryan. But now she was being kept by Charlie Brelli, the biggest opium smuggler in the middle east – and she was mainlining... He crept into her cabin. She threw here arms around him and sobbed. “What’s happened to you since last summer?” Pride asked. He leaned down and kissed her again. On the fore head on the lips. Then he lay down with her. Suddenly the door opened and the light flashed on. It was Brelli. Beverly sprang up and ran past both of them into the passageway. She ran onto the deck and threw herself into the sea. The blockbusting new novel of the C.I.A., the K.G.B. and women, women, women!