Tapes

About the Book

Handsome thirty-year-old Ben Rusk is dumped by his fianc閑 and fired by his cross-dressing U.S. Senator boss on the same day. Bent on revenge, he takes a low-pressure temp job as a night check-in clerk at a tired old Washington, D.C. hotel so he can begin work on his 搕ell all?memoirs. There he accidentally discovers a sordid little secret: the old night manager has rigged one of the rooms to covertly videotape attractive young couples. A philandering police detective so far has ignored the sleazy goings on because the manager gives him free use of the facilities for his frequent trysts with hookers. Things get complicated when Ben and his former girlfriend decide that secret videotaping could be both kinky fun and a way to score some big money. The plan? Pick a room at the hotel, install high quality video gear, videotape hot young couples and market the end result as adult videos. But the plan backfires. The unsuspecting detective becomes the star of one of the secret productions. Suddenly, vengeance and murder become guests at the old hotel. And they don抰 check out till the bitter, bloody end.

About the Author

Mr. Ochs has been a reporter and editor in the education and computer fields for 27 years. An avid reader of crime fiction, particularly the work of Elmore Leonard and Ed McBain, Mr. Ochs has long toyed with the idea of writing his own kind of crime thriller. Married and the father of five, this is his first novel.