Fierce invalids home from hot climates

Invalids follow switters, a 35 year old c i a agent on his journey as a wheelchair bound intelligence officer switters experiences love and danger across several continents robbins "explores, challenges, mocks, and celebrates virtually every major aspect of our mercurial era "( quote from the hardcover book jacket ) robbins has stated in numerous interviews that in this book he was trying to deal with contradiction, but rather than avoiding his contradictory nature, his character embraces it he's a c i a agent but despises the government he's a pacifist but carries a gun he's as much in love with his 17 year old stepsister as he is with a 46 year old nun switters feels that the core of the universe and the basis of human existence is the paradox of light and dark coexisting together one is not separate from the other; they just co exist this is the main idea of " fierce invalids home from hot climates", along with an interest in the lady of fatima and a squawking parrot the title of the novel comes from arthur rimbaud's a season in hell, in which he daydreams about becoming one of "ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds "