Three Thousand Nights

Introduction to the Work: The man who despised me more than trash was the same man who once whispered love to me. 19th century England, A time when the foundations for a war to export opium were being laid. Macqueen Lester, the representative of England's largest trading company, 'Cloud Division,' and a kingpin of opium trafficking, seeks to achieve his ambition of seizing power by hitching a ride on high society through the war. At a salon attended for lobbying purposes, Macqueen encounters Aaron Wizfield, the profligate of London society. Despite his elegant exterior, Aaron is a man who indulges in eccentricities while intoxicated by opium, and Macqueen comes to despise him. “You op...