Fielding Gray, survivor in spite of himself. He comes to the enchanted city to seek literary inspiration and finds himself caught up in the sexual perversions of a long-dead English aristocrat…

Max de Freville and his unscrupulous partner lukiadopoulos – their future depends on the dangerously high stakes of international gambling…

Captain Detterling, a prince among survivors, whose newly inherited Marquisate is threatened the discovery of a missing manuscript….

And Tom Llewellyn with Daniel Mond – two scholars searching  for peace and purpose in the corrupt, decaying atmosphere of  sinking city.