Vijay Eesam Eesam itibaren Seltso, Bryansk Oblast, Rusya
Sultry, shady and sexy. I could ponder it's moral code but the exterior, the backdrop of Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century is engrossing enough. Everyone in this book is guilty of something and no one can be trusted yet three men find themselves in each other's presence all needing something from one another. At the end of the road lies an even more deceptive female who nearly brings all of them to their knees. Also contains an opium smoking sequence that is so lucid and spiked with seduction you start to wonder if Maugham didn't chase the dragon a little himself.