CLAIRE BERLINSKI

After sending her résumé to the CIA on a whim, New Yorker Selena Keller is contacted by an Agency recruiter, who asks her how she would feel about convincing another human being to commit treason. Despite her checkered past, Selena passes the background investigation and a battery of bizarre aptitude tests. Living under cover as a government budget analyst, she begins her education in espionage at the Farm, the CIAs covert facility.All CIA officers must survive a demanding training program, and it is there that Selena becomes romantically involved with Stan, a brilliant but darkly paranoid fellow student with presidential ambitions. What happens next is a fascinating inside portrait of the Agencyhow spies are recruited, how they are trained, who they meet, where they go, and most important . . . what happens when they fall in love, and begin spying on one another.

Selena Keller es una neoyorquina que acaba de completar un doctorado en estudios orientales después de uan estancia de dos años en la India. Desempleada y abatida ante sus pobres perspectivas laborales, un impulso la lleva a enviar su currículum a la CIA. Al cabo de unas semanas, una reclutadora de la Agencia le pide que convenza a otra persona de que se convierta en traidora.