MY NAME'S MARK TAGGERT . . .

I'm a drifter, a bum, a nobody. No job, no money, no future. I'm on the Thruway with a laundry bag over my shoulder and my thumb stuck out in the air.

Then the most beautiful girl in the world picks me up. She falls in love with me. I fall in love with her.

Nice? Yeah, sure.

I'm still Mark Taggert--a drifter, a bum, a nobody. And she's Elaine Rice--a Park Avenue playgirl with more gold than Fort Knox.

So where do I go from here?

No one but Sheldon Lord could have written this book, probing so deeply into the inner reaches of human relations. This is a novel you won't be able to put down!