The Edgar Award-winning author who sold eighty million books worldwide sends Department Z undercover in a spy thriller full of suspense and seduction.   Marlene von Barlack knew everything there was to know about politicians. She knew who they spoke to, where they went, and most of all she knew how to get them into bed.   But now Marlene must use her powers of persuasion to do some investigating of international proportions. Who among her prestigious paramours is plotting political destruction and seeking to destroy world peace?   As a frenzied manhunt begins across the continent, Marlene must race against the clock to work out which lover's embrace was really a madman's kiss of death . . .   "Mr. Creasey realizes that it is the principal business of thrillers to thrill." --Church Times   "Little appears in the newspapers about the Secret Service, but that little makes anything on the subject probable fiction. Mr. Creasey proves himself worthy of the chance." --The Times Literary Supplement