具体描述
Sex becomes the ultimate secret weapon in
a dazzling novel of deception and duplicity
involving two glamorous women who are
look-alikes. With The Second Lady, Irving
Wallace has written a masterful new work of
fiction that takes the reader into the hidden
corridors of power at the highest level in
Moscow, Washington, and London.
Billie Bradford, the brilliant and beautiful
wife of the President of the United States. is
on a state visit to Moscow when she is
abducted by the Soviets, and Vera Vavilova.
a superbly trained Russian undercover
agent and actress who is the First Lady s
physical double, is put in her place.
The imposter s mission is to induce the
President to reveal a U.S. secret that will
drastically 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, daringly
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.
