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Stephen Yorke works for Phoenix, a shadowy organisation specialising in deniable, black operations. When they are attacked and virtually wiped out Yorke turns from being the hunter to the hunted! With his stepson taken hostage, Yorke needs all of his ruthless determination to fight back. Who is he fighting and who can he trust? Pursued across the country, he unravels a web of horror that leads him to the highest echelons of government. He discovers an unlikely ally in Catherine, an investigative journalist who has stumbled into his nightmare. But is she all she appears?

It is 1946, and Frank O'Brian is a gumshoe in New York, in other words, a private investigator. Having just qualified as a lawyer when the US entered WWII, he quit to work as a field agent for the Office of Strategic Services in Europe. Upon returning to New York, he found the notion of returning to the law too tame and hung up his PI shingle. In his first big case, he is involved in murder, blackmail, and double dealing.

Liefde, erotiek en seksualiteit zijn universele thema’s. Toch zijn er grote culturele verschillen in de manier waarop mensen deze thema’s vormgeven in hun dagelijks leven, hun gebruiken, hun kunst en hun wetgeving. En in veel gebieden lijkt de vorm en de ervaring van erotiek te veranderen, wat soms tot grote spanningen leidt. In deze serie van tien hoorcolleges wordt de luisteraar meegenomen op een fascinerende reis door verschillende culturen en filosofieën: van de vroege Griekse en Babylonische naar die van Azië, Afrika en Europa tot het moderne Westen.