The first in a series of novels that follow the erotic exploits of beautiful young spy and a hedonistic adventure seeking, rebellious, roguish son of the Marquis and Marchioness of Barcelona, an aristocratic Spanish noble family. Their two stories run in parallel until they merge into an intensely heightened adventure. Meanwhile: Vladimir Putin during the KGB transiting into the FSB left the intelligence agency and moved into politics during the breakup of the Soviet Union taking with him an intense resentment for the Western democracies. His close colleague Yury Gribachov from the spy fraternity, remained with the FSB as a spymaster. Yury, from a family of spies, was committed to his own hidden agenda. Putin gathers many of his old KGB buddies into the ministry into powerful positions to shore up his position for his own hidden agenda. "So it's the status quo is it?" "On the surface anyway, for the time being." Manipulation becomes the main game. https: //www.amazon.com/Don-Paul-Shaeffer/e/B009MSXV66/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk Book 1 A Spy Is Born Book 2 The Spy and the Mercenary Vampire Origin of the Species Book 3 Serpents and Scorpions Vampire Origin of the Species 2 Book 4 Slavers Book 5 Bloodline > to be published 2023