Ripped from the files of the CIA! Valerie Plum, America's Top Spy©, is back and this time she's got Nancy Pelosi with her! Join the dynamic duo on a "secret" mission in 2007 to Syria to Bring Peace to the Middle East™. Meet ace State Dept. hand Hatton Hand, Middle East gadfly Green Helmet Guy, Asma and Dr. Bashar "Dr. Bashir" Assad, the Bill & Hillary Clinton of the Levant, along with a special guest appearance by the "Dean of White House reporters," Helen Thomas. Can Val and the First Female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives® thwart the unholy machinations of the evil Dick Cheney and his puppet, the idiot-savant Bush, while overcoming the bad taste left by John Kerry? Can they solve the riddle of the Sphinx? Untie the Gordian Knot? Get San Francisco-style crab cakes in Jordan? This needs a woman's touch! Now it can be told! It's Lucy & Ethel meet a Hope & Crosby road picture. Right from the horse's mouth! The long-awaited second book of the Valerie Plum, America's Top Spy, series.