Mike is between cases and has a serious cash flow problem. He knew taking the case with the Jockey and his kinky wife was not smart but he didn't really have a choice. Once he found out the Westies and Three Finger Kelley were involved he should have thrown in the hand. Things happened and now it was personal. Personal to Mike meant nothing short of a final solution.
It didn't seem possible that in this modern age, human beings would actually be hunting each other instead of wild animals. Zelda always felt sorry for the poor creatures of the wild that were outmatched against a long range rifle or even a high velocity compound bow with steel tipped arrows. Now she wished this group of heavily armed jerks would go after the animals and not her because she was afraid.
Arthur's English tutor at Eton boys school on the Thames takes the fourteen-year-old boy out for a spin and a deflowering on the Thames river and uses poetry to get the boy's shorts off of him.
14-year-old Sandy has escaped home in "wherever" and come to Hollywood, not to become a star but to find a sugar daddy. Homeless, crouching under a bridge, and living off serving men, he is offered a trip to a brothel ranch to be given to a movie star as a favor exchange. It's a "why not?" proposition for him.