Young Antinous, captured by the ancient Greek state Tripolis general Herotis in a battlefied defeat of the Greek state Kozani, is deflowered by the general and becomes Herotis's cup bearer, bed mate, and spy. There is a question of who Antinous really is spying for, though.
What would make a sophisticated, well-educated American man in his early thirties take a job running coffee and cinnamon plantations in rural East Timor for a Portuguese export house? It couldn't be because the age of consent for teenage boys there is fourteen, could it?