Carter has two sexual obsessions. One is for sex with straight men and the other is for sex with young men.
Carter becomes immersed in the world of soccer players and the homoerotic, but macho environment of naked footballers. This is an alien world to the effete and cultured Carter.
"Once again I watched these men behaving in their uninhibited way. I tried to puzzle out if there was actually any latent homosexuality in their cavorting. On the surface they seemed a very straight bunch of men, either married, or with gorgeous girlfriends. It seemed footballers attracted much female attention! Yet, somehow it beggared belief that they were as completely unmoved by their nakedness together as they appeared to be. And that extraordinary romping in the bath together -
Carter soon attends his first soccer match and his young lover, the blond, bisexual, Garry Newburn scores a goal:
"I looked down at the pitch and Garry had stripped off his shirt and was swinging it around for joy above his head. Racing back along the touchline below us, he displayed his smooth muscles and chest to the adoring fans. This peculiar behaviour seemed entirely appropriate in the context of this joyful cauldron. He stopped below us and flinging his shirt into the air, he stood triumphantly, fists raised in the air in salute, grinning up at us."
"The first of his team-
A bullied and teased young man, called Barry, disappears in Prague when the football team is visiting the city. Carter resolves to solve the mystery of the disappearance, at the request of Barry's parents.
In this fast-
Will Carter solve the mystery and see that the guilty are fairly dealt with?