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It was Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, who remarked, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” This statement appears to be just as true today as it was then. Perhaps it is even more valid today considering the pressures and frequent monotony of today’s world.
The majority of today’s men and women live in boring circumstances, and when the opportunity for change arises, they are often quick to seize the chance. For the characters in this story, the opportunity is one which many would consider perverse and deranged. But it provides a release and a need. All morals and scruples are cast aside in a moment of madness — a chance to grab pleasure before it is taken away.
PAWNS OF PASSION — a novel about the quiet desperation in so many of us — and the extremes to which it may drive us.
Pat Adams, a statuesque brunette of thirty-eight, was backed up against the office wall, staring at her new boss. “You want WHAT?” Pat said incredulously. “I couldn’t have heard you correctly, Mr. Spalding.”
“Then I’ll say it again,” Brock Spalding said. “I want you to undress.”
Pat couldn’t mistake his words that time. Still she couldn’t believe he’d ask anything so outrageous. She remained silent a moment, wondering just how she’d gotten herself into such a fix. It was only her first hour on the job, and already she was in trouble.
For five years, ever since her husband died, Pat had worked for long hours and poor wages at a dime store to support herself and her daughter Trish. Finally she’d made the break and taken a better-paying job at the Tango, a new nightclub run by Brock Spalding. But she was nervous about being a cocktail waitress, and Spalding’s astonishing request certainly hadn’t helped calm her down.
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