| Sex becomes the ultimate secret weapon ina dazzling novel of deception and duplicityinvolving two glamorous women who arelook-alikes. With The Second Lady, IrvingWallace has written a masterful new work offiction that takes the reader into the hiddencorridors of power at the highest level inMoscow, Washington, and London.Billie Bradford, the brilliant and beautifulwife of the President of the United States, ison a state visit to Moscow when she isabducted by the Soviets, and Vera Vavilova,a superbly trained Russian undercoveragent and actress who is the First Lady sphysical double, is put in her place.The imposter s mission is to induce thePresident to reveal a U.S. secret that willdrastically tip the world balance toward Russia. But she must move carefully, knowing that one false move can destroy her masquerade, whether at the breakfast table, before the TV cameras- or in the White House bedroom. Meanwhile, in Moscow, the real Billie Bradford, terrified, embarks on her own program of deception, desperately seeking ways to escape, daringl leading a Soviet intelligence officer astray in the most intimate area of her married life, an area about which the Russians could not possibly have any information. Two women, each playing a treacherous game in a foreign land, each taking a desperate gamble in the arms of the other s lover-hauntingly mirrorlike heroines inexorably propelled toward a face-to-face confrontation of unbearable tension and a totally unpredictable, stunning, and shocking climax. |
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