Medora Hart�young, ravishing, beautiful, whose involvement in a Profumo-like scandal had all but toppled an English government ...

Jay Thomas Doyle�once a renowned and respected columnist, now struggling desperately to recapture his lost fame by a most dangerous expos? ...

Hazel Smith�an embittered American foreign correspondent and the mistress of a man high up in the inner circles of the Kremlin ...

Emmett A. Earnshaw�an ex-President of the United States, fighting an all but hopeless battle against a ruthless German munitions tycoon to retain an honorable place in history ...