LAZY EYE
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Aden Spencer is the result of an affair between a university student studying abroad and a much older French government minister. In Seattle, Aden's relationship with her mother and stepfather is rocky and when she is fifteen she moves to Paris to live with her father. At her school she meets Christopher Prince, another American, and they forge a lifelong friendship. Aden embraces her new life abroad. When she meets her father's protégée, Ian Stuart, she begins a risky relationship with him, to Prince's revulsion. Ian confides in her about her father's defense company, including information that SDS is illegally supplying weapons to Croatians in Yugoslavia in anticipation of war. After university Aden works for the family business and quickly becomes skilled in the competitive game and politics of the weapons business, preferring the dirty deals of the industry, to the dismay of Prince.
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