The Venusberg of the title story is, of course, Bangkok and environs, its Tannhauser an ex-GI who discovers it’s best not to come back. As in Occidental Adam, Oriental Eve, Cadet’s principal theme is...

Document Found in a Prefab Undergoing Demolition in a North-west London Suburb A novel-ms, lost and recovered years later, in the form of an account by a schoolboy of his final year at grammar school,...

A majority of these stories is set in Thailand. A shot rings out in a Bangkok slum; not far from Pattaya a portly Thai banker is taken by a shark; a Western adviser, at the end of his tether, sits at...