The carpetbaggers

H. Robbins, H. Rubin

The Carpetbaggers is really a tale about a manly rich airplane flyer and maker who gets involved with Hollywood. The references to real life people are so thinly veiled that you sometimes forget that he is pretending to have made up the situations. But then you're jarred back into the fiction, because part of how Harold keeps you hooked is by throwing in gratuitous sex scenes ... constantly. The Carpetbaggers was probably the first New York Times bestseller to include scenes of fellatio.