Journal Entry 1 by DennytheCop from Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA on Sunday, June 15, 2008

Philip Croft, a master spy for Her Majesty’s secret service, MI6, was cruelly outed and tortured for his homosexuality. All his adult life he was a dedicated rice queen—partial only to Asian men. In his life he had three lovers and a few brief encounters. He was a gentle man and a gentleman, a member of private clubs, a man of privilege, who was betrayed by some of his friends—not for being gay, but for being too decent and naïve.
This novel traces Philip’s life and his loves, and is a triumphant testimony to a gay man’s passage from mid-life to old age. Brushes with death and derring-do followed him even into his elder years. He was able to keep his dignity and live a full life while briefly thumbing his nose at his former superiors by opening a gay sauna in London. Being a rice queen was his preference, but living a fulfilled life was his destiny.
Readers of the author’s suspense novel The Daemon in Our Dreams will recall that Paul Rowan visited Philip Croft in his London home and told him about his eerie encounters with the dream-daemon Ramesh. In the later pages of this book we see Paul Rowan’s fate through the perspective of Philip and his lover Robin.
This book breathes life into a gay man who served his country through deception, and though his country punished him for his personal deception, he became the victor rather than the victim.