EBOOK
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A car bomb in Washington, D.C. leaves a body and a riddle: who was Eduardo Allesandro Palmero, and who wanted him dead?
CIA investigator Alfred Dobbs is tasked with reconstructing the last months of a Chilean dissident whose most effective weapon was not a gun or a coded cable, but seduction. As Dobbs sifts through testimony and fragments of a life lived in shadows, a different kind of spy story emerges-one built on charisma, obsession, and the quiet leverage of desire.
At the center are three women drawn into Palmero's orbit:
Marie DeFarge, a polished Washington insider who mistakes charm for truth;
Frederika Millspaugh, a restless seeker looking for meaning and finding a cause instead;
Penny Anne McCarthy, sharp, hungry, and convinced she can manage what others could not.
Each believes she understands the man. Each is wrong in a different way. As the lies begin to unravel, Dobbs follows a trail from Capitol Hill to the long reach of Chile's security apparatus, where love and ideology blur and nothing is freely given.
Who killed Eduardo Palmero? More to the point-who was using whom?
CIA investigator Alfred Dobbs is tasked with reconstructing the last months of a Chilean dissident whose most effective weapon was not a gun or a coded cable, but seduction. As Dobbs sifts through testimony and fragments of a life lived in shadows, a different kind of spy story emerges-one built on charisma, obsession, and the quiet leverage of desire.
At the center are three women drawn into Palmero's orbit:
Marie DeFarge, a polished Washington insider who mistakes charm for truth;
Frederika Millspaugh, a restless seeker looking for meaning and finding a cause instead;
Penny Anne McCarthy, sharp, hungry, and convinced she can manage what others could not.
Each believes she understands the man. Each is wrong in a different way. As the lies begin to unravel, Dobbs follows a trail from Capitol Hill to the long reach of Chile's security apparatus, where love and ideology blur and nothing is freely given.
Who killed Eduardo Palmero? More to the point-who was using whom?