As a "Quirky Queer Spy Novel," the book lives up to this description. In a saga with spies, intrigue, fun, and mystery, Electra, the Society Dom, and Charley, the female to male transsexual, pansexual, polyamorous individual, try to have a relationship within all the chaos that surrounds them. Electra struggles with Charley's pansexual behaviors while trying to help him solve a case of bombs being placed around Paris. Charley was sent there by the CIA to help with terrorism and Electra finds herself intrigued and involved in this case, although she was only supposed to come to Paris to study French. Their ongoing professional travails coupled with exciting sex and frustrating love, allow the reader to peek at their neuroses as they try to help the French save the city from more dirty bombs—bombs that are made by neo-Nazi's to awaken Paris to the problem of immigrants, and a few "faggots," cluttering the scenery.

This is another farcical romp through the bedrooms of the stars, and while it's the second book in the series, it also works as a stand-alone novel. With a mystery story line and timely topic, the book manages to be entertaining and sassy with the two main characters and all the sub-characters that surround them. These sub-characters, including the aristocratic Dickie, the Dame of Burque, who loves beautiful hats; Odile, a milliner who provides the caps and who is a lover of all things French; Sebastian, the hot aide to Charley; Cask, the mad bomber; Liam, the spy; and Blair, Charleys' butch lesbian best friend, are nicely developed and humorous. The plot revolves around love and loss, patriotism and heroism. In the end, what happens with the love Electra and Charley share? Is Paris saved from bombs and neo-Nazism? Engaging from the first sentence to the last, the authors add another feather to their own caps with this light-hearted, entertainingly ridiculous inane story.

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