WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GILES FODENQuerry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life.Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper mutilated by disease and amputation.Querry slowly moves towards a cure, his mind getting clearer as he works for the colony.However, in the heat of the tropics, no relationship with a married woman, will ever be taken as innocent...