A month after Baron Wilhelm von Sternburg forcefully initiated fourteen-year-old American-English tender and ripe Gabriel Beaventon in a Tangiers beach resort cabana (see "Using Gabriel 1: The Baron"), the baron summons Gabriel and his mother to his Austrian Alps chalet for a ski week. He wants Gabriel to help him seal an arms deal depending on the intervention of an Italian bishop with a fetish for young boys. Gabriel complies. But of course the baron wants to do Gabriel again himself too
Chinghai Province general Han Shui brings his exotic, fourteen-year-old Chinese-Italian son, Han Li, to the imperial court in Peking for the boy to continue his civil service studies. At court, Han Li catches the attention of the captain of the imperial guard, Ke Chuan, who steals the boy's virginity. Han Li catches the attention of the Emperor Pu Yi too, who wants him as a concubine. Only virgins can qualify as imperial concubines, and, when Pu Yi lies with Han Li, the gods are not pleased.
A historical novel in the form of a retrospective narrative by a Habsburg nobleman in 1905/6. It is not intended to be easy reading, but is a genuine attempt at a fin-de-siecle existentialist narrative.
English archeologist Hendricks, finishing a season's tomb dig in Egypt's El Faiyum Desert in the first decade of the 20th century, has brought his excavated treasures and teenage servant boys to a tent hotel on Qaraum Lake for the annual loot split with Prince Nuri's Ministry of Antiquities. Hendricks, the prince, and the prince's factotum, Husani Hamide, all share a preference for teenage boys. This preference becomes embroiled in the negotiations over the treasure split.
A WW2 veteran from Canada is racing at Le Mans in 1956 at the wheel of a Corvette, fulfilling his dream of running the legendary 24-hour race. However, he did something evil during the war and his past comes back to haunt him.
In the heart of war, courage and compassion can make all the difference. Sister Justine faces the horrors of battle with unwavering resolve, showing that even in the darkest times, humanity endures.