How did Alice Barnstable, a not so simple girl from Valdosta, Georgia, find herself mixed up in the fast-paced world of political consulting, not to mention toting a gun for the CIA? Alice will tell you all about it, in a bildungsroman that takes readers back to the tumultuous Reagan Era, where Alice encounters everyone from CIA Director Bill Casey to Woody Allen. Most of all, she encounters her boss, Kevin Meister, a German longing to atone for his country's Nazi past by striving to bring the benefits of democracy to Central and Eastern Europe.