"Who are the Adventurers? They are those amoral, notorious, but extremely talented few who seem always to shape our secret thinking, the sort of clothes we wear, our sexual attitudes - who live the lives that most of wish we led..."--back cover.

Whenever Dax traveled in search of wealth and pleasure, he was drawn back in the end to Corteguay, the bandit-ridden village in South America where he had first known the fear of death and the beauty and treachery of women.--OCLC/WorldCat