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Set amid Palm Beach's fabulously wealthy citizens, a sixth novel featuring Archy McNally and his sidekick Binky Watrous who must unravel the mystery surrounding the murder of a bird store owner, and the abduction and shooting of two clerks who worked there.Follows MCNALLY'S TRIAL, MCNALLY'S LUCK, MCNALLY'S RISK and MCNALLY'S CAPER. ... Read more

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Three compulsively readable hits from the master. In The Pleasuresof Helen, Lawrence Sanders tells the startling and sensual storyof a woman in love with love. Next, he blends crime and romance inThe Seduction of Peter S., the story of a man who pursueswoman's oldest profession...until the Mob walks in. And in ThePassion of Molly T., Sanders blends sex, suspense, and violence inan erotic tale about an extraordinary woman and the loves and hatredsthat consume her. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (11)

Readable but without a real climax or plot twist
I found this book readable and good enough if there is nothing else around. there seem to be no real climax or plot twists that are unforseen.There are a few points where the author clearly sees it as a plot twist or a surprise, but any reader with a basic ability of forshadowing would know what will happen 50 pages in.Decent enough but still somewhat of a bad rip-off of Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Fourwith cheesy sex scenes thrown in.What I think is funny in science fiction books around this time is that they thought we would have much more advanced chemistry and biotechnology (most food in this world is made out of petroleum, virtually all the children are near geniuses) but computers are nowhere as advanced and something as complex as the internet was unthinkable.

a terriffic read
a mostly unknown gem from 1973 by the author who became known for THE FIRST DEADLY SIN and THE MCNALLY CAPERS . when i read this novel back in 75 ( the first paperback edition) i did not want to see the year 2000!SANDERS' look at the immediate future is horrifying. predicting the future is always risky business but SANDERS fills his futuristic tale with the most incredible plot twists and memorable caracters. welcome to a world where many people are born in a test tube with genetic ratings ( those who were born naturally are known as OBSOS for obsolete) the dept. of health and welfare is now known as the dept. of public happiness or the dept. of bliss. almost all drugs are legal. people drink vodka and smack and smoke marijuana as readily as we drink vodka and tonic. pot is legal and sold by the government . one brand is called BOLD. when you have sex with someone that person is known as a 'user". if you enjoyed the sex then it was "profitable".( martha and i used each other last night , it was quite a profit". money is called LOVE. ( sorry nick but theres no love in this project lets move on to something else) . food and drink as we know it is almost all genetically engineered from petro or oil.people eat "petroveal" and "propeas" and drink wine that tastes like fuel. occassionally you can find a real bottle of wine made from REAL grapes that will cost a fortune.( what do you want to eat tonight nick, fake italian or fake french?) an artificially inseminated malewith a grade a genetic rating is catogorized as a AINMA-A. the government controlls all genetic ratings and if you dont have an A rating you cant have children. the united states is a huge corporation heading towards leading a corporate world. known now as simply THE US ( the u.s. of america was dropped ) any nation can join the US. costa rica and purto rico where the first to join. england is thinking of joining the us at the time of writing. medical and genetic engineering are racing ahead with startling and frightening rapidity. the govt. absolutley rules everything. nicolas bennington flair is the main carachter whos job among other things is to protect and keep alive a dying obso social genius named hyman lewishon. he comes up with the most frightening and horrifying idea i think ive ever read in any sci fi or social fiction tale that i wont even hint at to avoid spoiling it for those who havent read it yet. his friend and user is paul bumford . also his understudy . they work directly for angelalee berri, the director of the dept. of bliss. the reader is taken on a ride withso many plot twists and turns and surprisesthrough the machinations of corporate power and political leadersthat after a while nothing is as it seems. who is screwing who?? right up to the final line of the book the suspense is just incredible. a tale of futuristic social and governmental workings that is sometimes funny,always frightening and endlessly fascinating. SANDERS imagination must have been working overtime on this one. never again did he rise to this level. never again did he write anything like it. the first part of the book is titled "X". the second part of the book is titled"Y". the third part is titled "Z", the final chapter ,only one paragraph long is titled "A". see what i mean about different?ive read this book 3 times and will probably read it again. dont miss this almost unknown gem.

PRE-PSYBERPUNK, ORIGINAL DISTOPIAN BIOMEDICAL FUTURE GENRE.HACK WRITER'S RESEARCH PAYS OFF!OLD BOOK, YET PRESCIENT
The best book I've ever read 3 or 4 times.
Let's keep it a secret until I'm finished the screenplay adaptation. Should I make it a mini-series for TV or a trilogy like The Matrix?
SEXPIT7@SE7EN7SILICONSTRIP, "The Big Guava"

my all time favorite book
This is the only book that I've read 5plus times.It is truly amazing, especially in that it was published 4 years before I was born.Way ahead of it's time, I look forward to reading it again!!!!

Biological Time Bomb went off back n 1973
To get full impact of The Tomorrow File, try digging up The Biological Time Bomb and comparing with Huxley's Brave New World and Brave New World Revsited.

The read it again -- The Tomorrow File, that is.

I first read The Tomorrow File and The Biological Time Bomb [sorry, can not recall that author's name] in 1973. MAYBE even 1972.

And by 1991 when the paperback re-issue was added to a bookstore across the street that is no more, well, I was seeing evidence every day that folks reading it for the FIRST time in 1991 were already LEFT BEHIND on what's real in "sociology."

Can't fault YOU, Larry. Or Aldous or Julian or even H.G. Welles and Upton Sinclair.

You warned them hard enough. Not that any bodies with the good old "It Can't Happen Here" attitudes ever paid attention.

Nicholas definitely pushed his luck too far. So far, even though thoroughly mind-diddled my own great love and I have stayed relatively free and happy with only the following chatter to show for going on 11 years... ... Read more