When public school teacher and CIA advisor Martina Jung is assigned the Russian photographer and societal infiltrator Stanley Osipov as her target she constructs a relationship of entrapment. He falls in love with her, as expected. But the unforeseen happens-his love is real, so real that she herself is entrapped. All her life she has remained true to her ideals, but now the stars align, and the lovers are caught between two opposing governments. Anyone who believes that the Cold War is over or that true love is a myth will find this book an awakening. Its story unfolds a relationship instigated by nature but doomed by society. Those who enjoy the crucible of philosophy and romance will find the mental struggles and emotional duels rewarding. Anyone whose bowl of cereal includes opposites in love and a sprinkling of colorful characters will not want to miss this book or its sequel Dragons More Decent Than Men.