Sex and violence. They go together like greed and blackmail, and jealousy and murder. Now acclaimed masters and rising stars of today's crime and mystery fiction offer hard-hitting, emotionally riveting, hauntingly erotic tales of cops, private eyes, perps, and average Joes and Janes swept up in the throes of urges too primal to be legal. Lawrence Block unveils a female schemer with a body to kill for...Joe Gores plumbs a private eye's past ravished by a blonde wraith...Wendi Lee follows the daughter of a brothel owner as she avenges her father...Donald E Westlake interrupts a sensual reverie with sudden violence...Stuart M Kaminsky trails a parolee shadowed by hot temptation...Loren D Estleman shows how lust can undermine an undercover cop...and twelve other exciting writers lure you into the seductively dangerous realm of...Flesh and Blood.