The narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition), his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and whores and his affair with a baronet's 14-year-old daughter.
The narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition), hi...