New York: Dial Press / Doubleday, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, a satire which skewers the pretensions of the rich but is still an endearing and affectionate adventure, a "delicious thriller about a gay interior decorator who joins his super-wealthy clients for a Caribbean cruise, only to find himself shanghaied by pirates. Bound hand and foot and tossed unceremoniously into a quaint, Paul Gauguin sort of hut picturesquely thatched with banana leaves, Gregory fears he will be boiled la langouste and served without so much as a creative sauce. But one night, as he lies in the dark with his face in the dirt, he hears a digging, snooting sound coming from the ground outside . . . Enter the most endearing sidekick in fiction, the brave pig Savarin." 180 pp. ISBN: 0-385195176.