Tight: A Novel Of The 1960s

San Francisco, 1967. Tough guy Morry Twych, with his brother Dicky and friend Moosy, has some years previously invented "porno" to replace the old burlesque. They run a successful "theater" downtown. Graduate student Will Rymer has been drafted by the Chicano members of PUS-People Under Slumlords-to be their honky negotiator with the slumlord, a downtown lawyer named Berlitzer. The suave Byron Berlitzer, aka Sleekman, also owns the property where the Twych Brothers operate their theater, and wants a piece of the action. All five men are involved with, maybe even in love with, the gorgeous Li Van Bang, a twenty-year-old Vietnamese-American, who is a clean naïve student at SF State by day and a sometime porno film actress by night. TIGHT begins with the men meeting and disliking and distrusting each other, but their self-chosen mission to rescue Li from the clutches of Wavy Hazy and his Hairy Pranksters forces them to work together and get to know each other, despite their differences.