A Spy is Born – THE EXPURGATED VERSION If you like intrigue, intelligent action adventure, a revealing storyline, with unbridled action, then check this out. General Yuri Nikolai Gribachov, a pathological manipulator, one time spy and confirmed bachelor, now head of a secret spy training facility within the KGB is struck by tragedy when his brother and wife, both KGB agents, are killed on an assignment and he finds himself the only living relative of his brother’s young daughter. The responsibility for little Diana makes him concerned about her future in Russia and he plans a scheme to spirit his beloved niece out of Russia for a safe life in the West when she is older. His plan takes on a bizarre and sinister twist when she is twelve and events present that causes him to sweep aside all parental instincts to coax his young niece into becoming the youngest spy in history. She becomes part of an elaborate Machiavellian scheme hatched by her spymaster uncle and the young spy is implanted into the glamour of Western European high-society. She quickly and smoothly maneuvers her way into the European Aristocracy. The effervescent young spy develops effortlessly from a manipulated child protégé into a consummate undercover agent. When she meets the roguish son a Spanish nobleman, she is caught up in a clandestine conspiracy with worldwide ramifications. The covert worlds of spies and mercenaries collide when she is catapulted from her gentle seductive world of polite society into his high-powered impact world of steel and action. As the tempo escalates, she is compelled to bring into play her practiced art of inveiglement as she choreographs a delicate dance of deadly persuasion with her life hanging in the balance. All the conflicting elements come together in a race against time, the manipulating spymaster, the atrocity, the mission, the CIA traitor, the dramatic escape and the relentless pursuit, foreign agents, mercenaries, and the uncompromising bloodshed leading to the unpredictable climax
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