Description
The Love Machine is the story of Robin Stone a charismatic, brilliant, ruthless man and of three women who love him:
Amanda: beautiful and doomed, whose career as a top-flight model is no consolation for her inability to win and hold Robin Stone . . . .
Maggie: an ambitious young actress who knows what she wants and will settle for nothing less than Robin Stone's love . . .
Judith: aristocratic, rich, married, desperate for love before it is too late, a woman who has everything in the world except the one thing she must have Robin Stone.
Their story is set against the background of the tough, superheated world of show business and big-time television the world Robin Stone has set out to conquer.
His conquest takes him into the arena of big money and big power. But beneath the surface of success, of expensive restaurants, penthouse offices, private airplanes and lavish living, lies the world the public never learns about-a world of uninhibited orgies in London, of "gay" parties in Hollywood, of sordid deals in which love and sex are coldly bartered.
In this hidden world, seeking to satisfy longings he cannot admit to himself, Robin Stone is driven from those who love him and whose love he cannot accept to a series of harrowing experiences: a brutal confrontation with a prostitute, a grotesque encounter with a beautiful transvestite in Hamburg's red-light district, and ultimately to the agonized discovery of the truth about himself and his past . . .
Surrounding him are the inhabitants of the world he makes his own: Christie, a third rate comic, who is projected to stardom by an unexpected television success; Ethel, a homely secretary, who sleeps her way to the top of Hollywood society; Dan, a powerful television executive, who lives in fear of seeing his private life exposed; Dip, a movie star on the way down, who befriends Robin only to betray him . . .
All these people and many more are caught up in the meteoric career of the man whose dazzling professional triumphs and spectacular sexual conquests can never answer his own questions about himself, the man who is: The Love Machine. . . .
ISBN: THELOVEMACHIN
