Fire child - Sally Emerson

TESSA CAN MAKE ANY MAN FALL IN LOVE WITH HER. SHE BEGINS HER LIFE OF FATAL SEXUALITY AT JUST THIRTEEN YEARS OLD BY DESTROYING THE MIND OF THE MAN NEXT DOOR. SHE MOVES ON THE SMALLER AND BIGGER VICTIMS - FROM A BOY AT A SOHO DISCOTHEQUE TO THE GLAMOROUS JOURNALIST WHO IS HER FATHER'S BEST FRIEND. THAT AFFAIR INDIRECTLY PRECIPITATES HER FATHER'S DEATH. FIVE YEARS LATER - IN RETREAT FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD AND HERSELF, STILL GRIEVING FOR HER FATHER - THE MAN WHO KILLED HIM RETURNS TO HER LIFE AS HER MOTHER'S FUTURE HUSBAND. TESSA ARMSTRONG, THE DECEPTIVELY SERIOUS ESTATE AGENT'S CLERK, TEAMS UP WITH MARTIN SHERMAN, A STRANGE YOUNG PROPERTY SPECULATOR WITH A PYROMANIAC PAST AND A BRIGHT POLITICAL FUTURE. SHE BEGINS TO EXERT HER POWER ONCE MORE... THE WHOLE STORY IS TOLD THROUGH THEIR DIARIES. BUT THE DIARIES OF TESSA AND MARTIN MAKE MORE THAN A SAVAGE NOVEL OF LIFE IN CONTEMPORARY LONDON: VAST IMPERSONAL FORCES ARE AT WORK WHICH PLACE "FIRE CHILD" IN THE TRADITION OF THE GREAT TRAGEDIES.;PTO FOR LAUNCH. 12/10/87-10/11.5 PALATINO: 256PP: A: 25000 @ $2.99 OR $3.50: UC=25P:MAX TO BECOME JOINT LEAD TITLE.