Title: The Lure Author: Felice Picano Published by: Delacorte, 1979 ISBN: 0-440-05081-2 [hardcover, 409 pages]
A chill March dawn. A lone bicyclist takes his morning exercise on the deserted West Side Highway. Then: a scream. A flicker of light from an abandoned riverfront warehouse. A glimpse of a dying man's face. And for Noel Cummings, a sudden descent from his safe, ordered life into stark terror.Noel Cummings is "The Lure." Young, handsome, a recent widower, he is the innocent witness to a brutal slaying, forced to become police bait for an elusive killer known only as Mr. X. And now, in Felice Picano's most chilling and controversial novel yet, a dark universe of physical and psychological violence comes to shocking light as "The Lure" enters it unaware: the netherside of New York's gay life, its shadowy backroom bars and pulsing strobe-lit private clubs; and the thrill-seeking world of the very wealthy, whose life-or-death games of love and loyalty Noel must suddenly play.
It is a world he knows nothing about.
It fascinates.
Repels.
Menaces.
Attracts.
Until he knows too much.
Until, caught between an obsessive policeman and his mysterious prey, entwined in fear and desire between the most alluring woman he has ever met and her magnetic, dangerous lover, there is no one to whom to turn.
And no turning back.
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