The life had been rewarding for Paris's grande dame of Madames. But now a ransom in back taxes was forcing the mysterious Madame to sign a lucrative book deal for a tell-all tale that would expose the private affairs of her powder-puff army...and the politicians, corporate czars, oil sheiks and aristocrats with shom they frolicked... When news of Cleo's deal hit the media, a bullet shattered the window of her limousine. suspicion centered on three of her girls, the Cartiers of her collection... The tape recorder is on; the century's best-kept secrets are pouring from Madame Cleo's lips. But someone is determined to silence Paris's legendary queen of pleasure once and for all. In political gadfly Lucianne Goldberg's brilliantly glitzy roman a clef, readers will delight in this of soupcon of sex, laughs and more than a little intrigue.