The third outing for Qhe, the Dragon King of Pashman, and while the characterisation holds the plot does less so, involving a sketchily drawn space mission, a sort of UN goodwill trip which falls foul of the machinations of an evil mastermind, you know the sort of thing. But there is more tantric or otherwise sex in this book - naughty bits were pretty much absent from the second novel in the series. And a Chinese family of torturers, and a lot of elephants - indeed a third or so of the novel involves Qhe visiting a sort of African counterpart (though don't think Rider Haggard at all here).