This second edition is extended to include extra pages of uncensored narrative not included in the first. The Spy and the Mercenary runs parallel to the story A Spy is Born but gives a detailed insight to Armand's growth and development up to and beyond the fateful meeting in Rome. It continues to follow the erotic exploits of Julia the young Honey-trap agent. It also reveals the secret years of the hedonistic adventure seeking aristocrat Armand as he becomes a mercenary that leads him into action packed encounters in Africa then in the South American jungle. He chooses the path of a freelance operative unwittingly becoming entangled in a monstrous plot that leads him into a sequence of events that have him on a path to a desperate fight for survival, vengeance and vendetta.