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Pilar Rivera is a beautiful young woman who emerged from the Cuban Revolution as one of the elite assassins Fidel Castro used to stay in power. Pilar is a shadowy figure who had served as a sniper during the revolution. After the war ended, she is sent to Russia for extensive training in espionage and political assassination. When she first comes to the U.S. at the age of 21, she is well schooled in killing with guns, knives and poisons. She has the authority to kill at will. She is first sent to Washington, D.C., to gather intelligence on the government''s efforts to eliminate Castro. She takes a job at Bobby Baker''s infamous Quorum Club, which Baker established with the blessings of Vice-President Lyndon Johnson for the purpose of spying on political figures in Washington.

Pilar and the other girls who work at the club are in reality call girls who are there to service the sexual needs of club members. JFK is an honorary member of the club, and it''s through this connection that he meets Pilar - for the second time. His first encounter with Pilar had come five years earlier in Havana, when Pilar was a 16-year-old virgin who had been forced into the sex trade by members the Santo Trafficante organization. JFK did not remember that encounter. But Pilar did. She vowed revenge at the time. And now she was about to get it.

It''s the Cold War. Fidel Castro is clinging to power in Cuba as the CIA, the Mafia and counter-revolutionaries try to take him out. His gorgeous go-to girl assassin, Pilar Rivera, is all that stands between him and the graveyard. The Cuban Missile Crisis is winding down, and Russia removes their nuclear missiles. Or do they? Rogue Russian agents help Fidel Castro smuggle nuclear warheads into the US. Now, five ticking nuclear timebombs are just waiting to be detonated whenever Castro feels the need. While famed columnist Dorothy Kilgallen is investigating the JFK assassination, she uncovers the story. It''s up to Pilar to keep her from telling it, even as she''s coping with Che Guevara in Cuba, Lucky Luciano in Italy, Elvis Presley in New York, Marilyn Monroe at Lake Tahoe, and Jackie Kennedy in the Mediterranean.

The story takes a twist when Pilar discovers Rafael''s Portrait of a Young Man, a masterpiece stolen by the Nazis in World War II, hanging on Lucky Luciano''s wall, and is drawn into the larcenous world of stolen and art and forged masterpieces.

It''s a sweeping tale of sex, intrigue, murder and madness involving the rat pack, the jet set, mobsters, moguls, and the most iconic figures of the 20th century, as told by Jack Ruby, the last man standing - right next to the girl who came calling.

She''s a jewel thief, art scammer and turncoat Cuban spy who helps avert a nuclear war. She''s smart, beautiful and kills with impunity. Pilar Rivera has more skeletons in her closet than Jack the Ripper: JFK''s assassination, the hit on mob boss Lucky Luciano, the murder of news reporter Dorothy Kilgallen and more. Pilar knows Bobby Kennedy had Marilyn Monroe murdered because she has Marilyn''s diary filled with dirty secrets about the Kennedys and their dealings with Frank Sinatra and the Mafia, not to mention the clandestine deal with the Russians that ended the Cuban missile crisis.

Pilar''s entire existence has become a deadly game of hide and seek. It only gets worse after she steals a bag full of JFK''s bribe money from defense contractors, a suitcase full of LBJ''s dirty money from Billy Sol Estes, and one of Fidel Castro''s nuclear timebombs smuggled into the U.S. In between, she helps pull off the biggest jewel heist in New York City history.

But the mother of all secrets is the Raphael masterpiece missing since World War 2. Pilar finds it at Lucky Luciano''s villa and conspires with master art forger Elmyr de Hory in a plot to bilk Aristotle Onassis out of millions.

Now, Pilar is "it." Everybody and his dog is looking for her: The CIA, The FBI, the KGB, the Mob, the Vatican, the Cubans, the Kennedys, LBJ and Aristotle Onassis. They all want what she''s hiding, and then they want her dead. Her only way out -- get them before the get her.

Hermosa, seductora y mortal... Pilar Rivera es forzada a una vida de matar o morir. Es increíblemente bella y sabe como usar sus atributos, mientras acecha y asesina al hombre que la secuestró en La Habana cuando tenía 16 -y termina enredándoseen el crimen de toda una era. De Pilar, se dice que es la hija cubana de Ernest Hemingway, la versión femenina de Jason Bourne; una mujer sin país, leal solo a sí misma, alguien que mataría por dinero pero cuya venganza, va gratis. Es unaimpresionante historia sobre sexo, misterio y asesinato; ambientada en los turbulentos años de la Guerra Fría, viajando de Cuba a Rusia, Nueva York a Paris, Miami a Nueva Orleans y finalmente a Dallas en un importante día de Noviembre. La historia gira alrededor de dos de las más importantes figuras del siglo XX -John F. Kennedy y Fidel Castro- mientras vemos un desfile de personalidades icónicas: Jackie y Bobby, Marilyn y Sinatra, Che y Raul, Oswald y Ruby, un grupo de famosos actores mafiosos conocidos como "Rat Pack", la mafia, la CIA y Hemingway. Es un thriller rápido narrado por Jack Ruby, el último hombre involucrado que aún sigue vivo -excepto por la chica que asesinó a JFK.