Fourteen-year-old Austin, grabbed from a Singapore orphanage and sold to a Macau brothel, is bought by an American spy to help foment a coup in Thailand by being offered as an incentive to Thai generals being urged to stage a coup and who have a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys. Austin doesn't resist much in serving these plans until the stakes are pushed painfully high.
It can get isolating as well as tense on a remote U.S. Marine camp deep in Syria. This is the case at Tiger Base, where the commander, Captain May, and two other Marines have a fetish for fourteen-year-old boys. Boys line up at the camp fence looking for favors. The three Marines let fourteen-year-old shoe shiner Labhan inside the fence to provide services. He does more than that for them.
There is one thing we taught our boys (note that, I didn't say our sons as we don't know that, though that's not their fault) after they were born, is to never trust your women. Love them by all means but never trust them.
This is a dark and unpleasant little tale, reflecting the dark and unpleasant space my head's been in for a while. Our new (UK) prime minister thinks we should honour our troops 'above all else'. I'm not so sure. Much use of the f-word in all but its literal sense. (New story not a repost)
As totalitarian regimes replaced democracies around the world in the 2030's. The US democracy also fails. Those protesting the new regime disappear. Soon even the smallest infraction is deemed subversion.