Born in Germany at the outbreak of World War II, Marita Lorenz was incarcerated in a Nazi concentration camp as a child. In 1959, she travelled to Cuba where she met and fell in love with Fidel Castro, yet upon fleeing to America, she was recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. In this stranger-than-fiction autobiography, Lorenz dishes on her life's twists and turns, including having a child with Marcos Pérez Jiménez, ex-dictator of Venezuela; testifying about the John F. Kennedy assassination; and becoming a police informant with close ties the New York mafia.