TICK STEFANOS HAS GIVEN up his job in sales to tend bar at the Spot, where drinks and women are both a bit too easily available, and the routine is starting to feel as dead-end as his last gig. But things are about to change. First, his high school friend Billy Goodrich asks him to find his wife, April, who he says left him for small-time crime boss Joey DiGeordano. In fact, April has taken off with hog farmer-bondage freak Tommy Crane and, it turns out, with $200,000 of DiGeordano family money. There are powerful enemies on her trail-and now they're on Nick's trail, too.