Sex And Its Substitutes

Sex and Its Substitutesauthor of The Mosquito CoastWhen people said, "Miss Duboys has a friend," they meant something sinister or, at least, pretty nasty--that she had a dark secret at home. Because we were both unmarried and grade FSO-4 at the London embassy, we were often paired up at dinner parties as the token singles. It became a joke between us, these frequent meetings at embassy residences. "You again," she would say, and give me a velvet feline growl. She was not pret...