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From the carcass of a Washington, D.C. car bomb explosion, the CIA launches an investigation into the mysterious events leading to the assassination of Chilean dissident and infamous casanova, Eduardo Allesandro Palmero. As CIA investigator Alfred Dobbs rummages through the evidence, Palmero's mysterious life, from heir to the Chilean oligarchy to a fist-raising Marxist and trickster in disguise, comes to light. But what Dobbs soon discovers soars beyond his wildest imagination.At the height of international terrorism, Eduardo fights his war with an unlikely weapon—seduction. From Marie DeFarge to Frederika Millspaugh to Penny Anne McCarthy, Eduardo orders his sex-craving subjects into battle, tearing them from a life of tranquility and into the passionate caress of a man who will stop at nothing for a cause, his cause. Soon enough, Marie, Frederika and Anne are making headline news as part of a South American terror squad.琥珀(上)
贵族后代琥珀流落乡间。她天生丽质、卓尔不群。这位原本纯洁又不甘蛰居的姑娘在伦敦物欲横流、尔虞我诈的社会中逐渐意识到逾越固有的社会规范、取得女性独立地位的途径。她几度陷入困境,先后遭遇骗婚、投毒、劫掠、瘟疫等灾险。在这过程中,她既表现得勇敢独立、坚强自信,同时也付出了自己的青春和善良,沾染了男权社会中的贪婪、自私、纵欲、不择手段等品性。在经历了这丰富而曲折的种种之后,琥珀最后还是为了追求自己真正的爱情而被迫放弃一切,离开伦敦前往美洲大陆。本书所述的故事将会是一个很好的警醒和借鉴,从而引导其拥有良好的心态和正确的价值观,为今后幸福的人生打下良性的基础。