Private Showings Author:Hook, George Hook Private Showings is a horror novel that lures the reader into the mind of a character who does not rate in a real world obsessed with the power of sexual beauty, but who nevertheless finds immersion with obsession through the body of a fantasy world. Using a textual variation on the cinematic jump cut, the novel leads first name X, middle name ... more »X, last name X to a sex video emporium in Paris, where the character seeks to finally consummate a love of lust by the light of the camera. XXX admires a woman who performs (described without explicit language, except for one key scene) on the screen while seeing her acts as a mirror to a private life of lost love and betrayal, treacherous addictions, and bizarre denouements to tragic episodes. But XXX cannot see into this reflection of personal life through the action on the screen, so, finally, XXX must join the woman in personal fulfillment through psychosexual terror.« less