A Dead Hand

Jerry Delfont is a travel writer with writer's block. When he receives a letter from an American philanthropist with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is intrigued. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room? How did he die? And why? As Delfont becomes more and more drawn into these mysteries, he simultaneously becomes increasingly entangled with the seductive philanthropist and her tantric massages. But she is also hiding something and it becomes swiftly apparent that all is not what it seems . . .