An impoverished young Russian woman is drawn into Putin's crusade to re-fight the Cold War and thrives as a high-level "swallow" spy in Washington, until her childhood love, now a merciless assassin, is sent by Mother Russia to kill her.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a destitute young woman is drawn into Vladimir Putin's unscrupulous crusade to re-fight the Cold War and thrives as a high-level "swallow" spy in Washington D.C. -- until her childhood love, now a merciless assassin, is sent by Mother Russia to kill her. The first in a trilogy culminating in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.—T.M. Hayes