HIS69-130 Turning the Screw
Turning the Screw
HIS69
HIS69-130
Art Richter
$1.95
Turning the Screw
HIS69
HIS69-130
Art Richter
$1.95
FOREWORD
We often think of those in such professions as medicine and the law as being scrupulously discreet in their sexual affairs. Occasionally a story will break about a particular surgeon or a certain judge or lawyer who had been accused of sexual misconduct.
We may wonder how such people in these high places could have been so careless. Didn’t they know the chances they were taking? Perhaps we don’t realize that they are subject to the same hopes, fears and desires that occasionally overwhelm any sense of caution as the more common folk.
Turning the Screw is the story of such passion. Lee Johnston is a young, handsome and promising lawyer who shares a growing practice with his lover Brian. Both have everything going for them—success, ambition, and love.
Yet for Lee it isn’t enough. One of his clients, Danny, is a young, horny, hung man accused of auto theft who threatens to destroy both the young lawyer’s professional and personal life. In a moment of desire Lee seduces the young man in the city jail and is caught in the act by Drech, a sadistic prison guard. The rest of the book is the story of Drech’s use of sexual blackmail on the two men, forcing them to submit not only to his desires but to those of any convict in the jail.
Turning the Screw follows Lee and Danny through a series of twisted sexual orgies in the Los Angeles City Jail. Abused, humiliated and disgusted, neither of them, however, is willing to risk his freedom or career to expose the guard and his following.
Of course Drech’s game can’t last forever. Its dissolution almost brings complete ruin to Lee, Danny, and anyone associated with them.
This novel is also the story of Terry, another lawyer and long-time friend of Brian, and his hopeless love for Lee. His chances appear good, especially when he is apparently the only one who stands by Lee through the gruelling public scandal.
Above all, Turning the Screw is a study of how fear of scandal can be used to twist a normally productive life, and how strength derived both from believing in oneself and from a strong and binding love can eventually triumph over even the most outrageous public scandal.
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