Lifetime

by Mark McShane

A YEAR OF BOOZE, BROADS AND BACCHANALIA -- ALL EXPENSES PAID
John Martin is hired by an eccentric old millionaire to fulfill the man's youthful fantasy to experience every exotic and erotic pleasure the world has to offer. Something goes wrong. Can it be he is unequipped to handle a life solely devoted to pleasure, one in which he is forbidden to rest, work or think?

The joyride becomes a kind of prison, complete with "watchdogs" to insure that he continues to enjoy himself--their way. The stint becomes a test of his mind and his endurance, and when he unexpectedly falls in love, John realizes how much he has come to fear them...what if they found out...If they found out...What would his punishment be?

330 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Mark McShane [b.1930 - 2013] was an Australian author of satire, suspense novels, and crime fiction. Born in Sydney to a family with Gypsy roots, he traveled the world for the first three decades of his life. In 1960, he settled on the island of Mallorca, in the Mediterranean, and decided to write fiction.

His first novel, The Straight and the Crooked, appeared that year but it was his third effort, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, for which he is best known. The story of a strange pair of kidnappers it was made into a well regarded film in 1964 and has been adapted as an opera. His most well known characters are the eccentric Detective Sergeant Norman Pink, and Appleton Porter, an unlikely spy whose often comic adventures McShane chronicled under the pseudonym Marc Lovell.