In addition to an engaging suspense story, the reader will find reflections, sometimes humorous, sometimes agonizing in their frankness, on the current state of American morals and marriages; observations on love and family from seven widely differing points of view - all are here in this absorbing drama of events that could not be sidestepped when a long-forgotten summer had to be relived.

(Key Words: Fiction, Country Clubs, Politics, Greed, Snobbery, Friendship, Novels ).