Jennifer Love Hewitt Explores the Scandalous Lives of Powerful Men

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt (who is rumored to be dating Bachelorette runner-up Ben Flajnik after “tweeting” each other) is returning to TV to explore a pretty racy role in The Client List. Based on a true story, the show will explore the life of Samantha Horton, a former Texas homecoming queen and physical therapist who experiences financial hardships when she and her husband both lose their jobs. Samantha accepts an offer to work at a massage studio, not realizing that the other staff members are actually prostitutes who service a clientele of wealthy and powerful men.

This is a trend that is soaring in the literary world as well. Two new books, HOOKED by John Franc and THE KNOT ARTIST by India Wilson both explore the secret world of sexual indiscretions. Both authors are writing anonymously and both books open readers eyes to a world very few even know exists. The Secret Diary of a Call Girl by Belle de Jour (another anonymous book) was an international sensation and spawned a Showtime series. What is it about this secret life that fascinates people? It is the same reason we are riveted to the television when news of a political scandal (Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Clinton) is plastered all over the media. Check out the books below for some insight into a forbidden world.

The Knot Artist by India Wilson

Summary: THE KNOT ARTIST is a startling, erotic political thriller whose unique heroine is Dominique – the most costly dominatrix on the East Coast — a character who will mesmerize you. Dominique s view of men, women and society is dark, original and hilarious. When something goes terribly wrong in her Bridgehampton dungeon with a U.S. Senator involved in Cuban-American relations, Dominique finds herself attracted to the mysterious international security expert who appears to handle the problem and whose life is even more about control than her own.

Hooked by John Franc

Summary: In the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and Henry Miller, John Franc’s masterful novel explores sexual obsession, as a group of male friends delve further and further into the world of brothels under the gleaming surface of their cosmopolitan city. Told through an anonymous collective point of view, the narrative names no character or location, implying that these men speak for all men. All seems well in this world where men sneak off to betray their wives and children, visiting brothel after brothel. But while toasting themselves and their moxie, evaluating the quality of their liaisons and caliber of their bought lovers, one man in the group becomes wracked by a guilt that threatens to undo them all.

Summary: This internationally celebrated memoir is now a new Showtime original series. Belle couldn’t find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more than anyone she knew–by becoming a call girl. The rest is history. Belle became a 20-something London working girl–and had the audacity to write about it–anonymously. The shockingly candid and explicit diary she put on the Internet became a London sensation. She shares her entire journey inside the world of high-priced escorts, including fascinating and explicit insights about her job and her clients, her various boyfriends, and a taboo lifestyle that has to be read to be believed. The witty observations, shocking revelations, and hilarious scenarios deliver like the very best fiction and make for a titillating reading experience unlike any other.

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