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.
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 fourteen-year-old, small, blond and angelic-looking boy somehow is transported from under a Baltimore bridge to a Bahrain brothel, where he becomes a favorite of vacationing Saudi men. To help close a juicy business deal with a Saudi prince, an American businessman rents the boy and flies him and two women prostitutes to Riyad. The prince chooses the boy. He has some kinky and challenging sex fetishes, as did the man who rented the boy.
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.
Dr. Anderson, an anthropologist, is heading up an expedition to the Amazon jungle. He is looking for the fabled city of Choque Cota. He has no idea what to expect on his expedition, but love with a jungle princess was way down the list!
All things must come to an end, and in this fifth installment of the story of the Austrian Baron Wilhelm von Sternburg's transformation of fourteen-year-old American-English sexually desirable boy, Gabriel Beaventon, to serve the baron's business interests as Europe moves toward war in 1935 reaches the point of the baron placing Gabriel in a London male brothel.