Vintage 224 page mass market paperback titled BEAUTY AND THE BUG by Ted Mark/ Dell Publishing Company #4503, First Printing, August 1975/ Steve Victor should have bugged out of the caper at the start, when a sunkissed beauty insisted on seducing him in a palm tree. He surely should have cut the tape that bound him to the case when a gorgeous guide led him to the utter depths of depravity in Paris, Certainly he would have liked to erase all record of what happened between him and a blonde bombshell with a friendly dog in the Alps. But by the time he fully realized the danger that threatened him, Steve Victor had plunged too far in to withdraw... Ted Mark penned the ?Man from O. R. G. Y.? series of thriller spy novels. The series featured fifteen books in total, starting publication in the year 1965, when ?The Man from O. R. G. Y.? was released. Steve Victor?s a guy that studies sex from all angles, both right-side-up and upside-down. Not only does he study it, he loves it and that makes the research he does that much more fun. He is the one-man organization called O. R. G. Y. It stands for, according to Steve, the Organization for the Rational Guidance of Youth. He calls it that because having a name that indicated the real purpose of studying sex would most likely get way too many doors slammed close in his face. For Victor, the open doors meant a lot more opportunities for cash and the true meaning of Obtaining Research Grants for Yours truly. Even though Victor admits freely that he works hard for grant money to continue his wonderful lifestyle, grants aren?t his sole source of income. While traveling the world, he also does some odd jobs here and there for some ?most secret of American spy organization?. This unnamed agency, which for sure isn?t the CIA, may send him off to different action spots in the world however it?s his lust that makes the spots get their activity. The book is complete and in GOOD - VERY GOOD condition with some overall wear that includes a spine crease and some corner wear. The inside pages are off-white.