A bachelor party on the eve of the wedding takes a wrong turn when the groom stumbles on stage with a dancer, Erin Grant, at the Eager Beaver. An unidentified wild man jumps into the fray and begins hitting the groom over the head with a champagne bottle. In the confusion, the unidentified attacker escapes. As it turns out, the attacker is so drunk he doesn't know what he did and doesn't really care. He is Congressman David Lane Dilbeck and he has a fixer on staff to deal with situations like this one . Unfortunately for the Congressman, some things cannot be easily fixed. In this case, the fix is the beginning of a series of deadly events.

"Strip Tease" has a number of memorable characters. Erin Grant, former FBI clerk, dances to make enough money to pay the legal fees in her custody battle for her daughter. Her ex-husband is psychopathic drug addict and a fine example of stupidity in action. Her friend and bouncer, Shad, is the back up muscle who makes every effort to protect, in between his get rich quick scams. Al Garcia, a local homicide detective whose family vacation is interrupted when his children find a floater from south Florida in a Montana river is determined to solve the murder. He must make some clever manouvers to accomplish this goal. This makes for an entertaining and read.