Publisher’s Blurb
Horatio Stubbs is in trouble with women – not for the first time. For the first time, however, he is enjoying considerable success. Margey has yielded to his repulsive charms and wants to marry him. Yet a suspicion remains – are Margey’s motives pure, considering that (well, you have to face facts if you can’t escape them) she is probably a whore. Katie Chae is unmistakably a whore and does not wish to marry Horatio. Horatio is in luck there. A Dutch girl, Raddle, also has her eye, and sometimes her thigh, on him.

Brian Says

In the third (and last) of the Hand Reared Boy series, equatorial juices flow. Stubbs is now in Sumatra, the official war being over. But the birth pains of the new Indonesian republic interfere with Stubbs’s sexual involvements with, among others, two Chinese ladies.

FIRST EDITION: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978

1	Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1978	Hardcover
2	Random House, New York, 1979	Hardcover
3	Corgi Books, London, 1979	Paperback
4	as: Un Rude Réveil, Henri Veyrier, Paris, 1979	Paperback
5	Charter Books, New York, 1980	Paperback
6	as: Sper Vuur, Playboy Humour, Amsterdam, 1985	Paperback
7	Sanrio, Tokyo, 1986	Paperback
8	House of Stratus, London, 2001	Paperback