The Hogarth Conspiracy (2012)
“Eli Fountain smiled, his cheeks dimpling and his capped teeth revealed. The furniture restorer had done a good job, the doctor thought admiringly; it was a very competent piece of work. But then money bought the best, Fountain told himself. The best furniture, the best workman. The best kind of life. He didn’t dwell on all the whores he had to examine for venereal disease or the grubby running around he had done for Charlene Fleet over the years; such unpleasantness was forgotten at the sight o...f a perfectly restored piece of furniture or a dinner at Le Gavroche.
All those years earlier, back in Texas, he had been a figure of fun. Short and unprepossessing with a slow drawl and a pudgy body, Eli Fountain had made few friends and courted no lovers. Realizing early on that his bedside manner was more likely to cause a relapse than a recovery, he had changed focus, and when the local whorehouse needed a clap doctor, he had obliged. Whores were used to ugly men and required no wooing. In return for a favor, a drug prescription, or an abortion, Fountain had managed to get all the sex his body craved.MoreLess
All those years earlier, back in Texas, he had been a figure of fun. Short and unprepossessing with a slow drawl and a pudgy body, Eli Fountain had made few friends and courted no lovers. Realizing early on that his bedside manner was more likely to cause a relapse than a recovery, he had changed focus, and when the local whorehouse needed a clap doctor, he had obliged. Whores were used to ugly men and required no wooing. In return for a favor, a drug prescription, or an abortion, Fountain had managed to get all the sex his body craved.MoreLess
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