Inverted Paradise — C.D. Moulton

Lenny Hamilton is out of work, a doormat-type personality, chased by a clinging needy-type girl. He was in a sad state when he got a phone call from a friend, son of a major mobster. Marko Ponti was trying to get away from the mobster lifestyle and had taken on a job, house-watching a mansion on a tropical Caribbean island, all expenses paid for two people  Would Lenny like to be the second person?What? You're kidding, right?Critic PA:A man is offered a vacation on a tropical island, all expenses paid. He arrives and is met with a fantastic tropical island peopled by physical gods and goddesses in a society that seems made for paradise.Why is he there at all? What is behind strange happenings? How has he changed? What does his companion's gangster father have to do with it?What happens if this paradise turns into an inverted paradise?***½