Brad is a respectable forty-year-old banker in the circus wintering town of Peru, Indiana, but he has a hankering for fourteen-year-old boys. He's working, in postwar 1949, on a scheme to "adopt," with fake papers, one of three boys he covers from a German male brothel, when, in Peru, he happens to come onto a knife-thrower's assistant, fourteen-year-old Alfonso, who has tried to drown himself in the Wabash River.
Z's biography continues. She remains a sex worker joining SU, an always nude, sexually-oriented resort. She takes her job as a 'companion' seriously. While working there she makes and helps a friend. Later on in the story an outside of SU opportunity with another companion and Z's sister generates serious income.
Male perspective bisexual: When you are a man/woman U.S. spy team in Southeast East and told to give a Laos-China-Myanmar border drug warlord whatever he wants to recruit him to support the national interest of the United States, you give him whatever he wants, even when he wants it from both of you.
Party girl Lexi is looking for someone who can make her feel a spark. Someone mature, hot, and fun. And she finds her brother, looking for the same thing.