The Casanova Embrace

A car bomb in Washington, D.C. leaves a body and a riddle: who was Eduardo Allesandro Palmero, and who wanted him dead?

CIA investigator Alfred Dobbs is tasked with reconstructing the last months of a Chilean dissident whose most effective weapon was not a gun or a coded cable, but seduction. As Dobbs sifts through testimony and fragments of a life lived in shadows, a different kind of spy story emerges—one built on charisma, obsession, and the quiet leverage of desire.

At the center are ...