RICHARD MANTON

As a bedroom sadist, Jeremy not only performs perversely brilliant seductions but also manages to part his women from their money in this series of 12 linked narratives. Amazingly, women still dote on him, from his elderly Aunt Em to warm-skinned Daisy, as each sensuous episode unfolds and begins to unlock the secrets of Jeremy's desires.

In the high noon of Victorian empire, Lady Jenny Langham accompanies her soldier uncle to the city of Khartoum on the Nile. The inhabitants of that city are soon besieged by an army of natives, and Jenny and her maid fall into the hands of the victorious Mahdi. Bedslaves of the warriors and gentle lovers of each other, the women are enveloped b...