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 THE PLEASURE MACHINE explores the human theme of vengeance fulfilled --
that peculiar kind of distinctly sexual revenge where lovers and strangers
are inexorably compelled to sexual acts by the power of unleashed passions
that they cannot control.
   Excerpt from: THE PLEASURE MACHINE
   Claire was relieved to find she had the room to herself.  She needed
time to collect herself.  She stood at the sink, studying her reflected
image in the mirror when, from somewhere not very far away, a button was
pressed, and a powerful wave of sexual energy was sent rocketing through
the middle-aged woman.  It knocked her back on her heels.  She thrilled as
the shudder of sexual excitement shot through her, weakening her knees,
leaving behind a residue of rutting lust that grew into a hungry ache
deep-seated in her loins.  Shaken, she exhaled a long, low, shivering
breath of air, nervously licked her painted lips, shook herself, and
straightened.
   Standing erect, she took a deep breath, and put her hand to her brow to
find it warm, and surprisingly damp with a sheen of perspiration.  Then,
just as she was getting back some semblance of her equilibrium, another
jolt of energy hit her; and a second, more powerful wave of randiness swept
through her shaken body.  She was burning up.  She gasped and clung to the
edge of the sink for support.  Claire was trembling, struggling to regain
her composure, looking into the dark, lust crazed eyes of the woman in the
mirror, when she was startled by a soft knock at the door.
   Copyright 2001, Don Winslow 
  
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