William Deacon, known as Deac to his pals in the magazine world as well as a host of celebrities, suddenly heard himself say, and "Okay, if you want to sail on the Montmartre, I can get us aboard. and " He made one phone call, and to the bewilderment of his true love, Twit-Twit, and his true friends, Tom and Betsy Dolan, all four found themselves outward bound for Europe on the supposedly sold-out pride of the line.And thereby lies a trail to America's sexiest movie star (Merrilee), her fears of a fate worse than a fate worse than death, her nightmares that literally come true, and a Hollywood conspiracy that could baffle the C.I.A. - all packed into the wittiest, most tightly plotted mysteries of the year.