Goldengirl was programmed to take, the 1980 Olympics in Moscow by storm — a superbly built, beautiful 19-year-old honey-blonde with a potential $20,000,000 pay-off in commercial exploitation. The stakes were high, the consortium backing her was interested only in gold — the gold medals Moscow that would spawn a fortune. This novel is a frightening, totally riveting story of the mental and physiological manipulation of a young girl whose mother had been conceived in a Nazi stud-farm by the mating of two of the finest specimens of Hitler’s German Youth. But heredity was only a starting point for Dr. Serafin, the American professor of anthropometry who adopted the child. The sinister implications of her upbringing only began to dawn on Jack Dryden as he became ever more deeply involved in pre-selling the Goldengirl image before she set foot on the Olympic track. Invited to join the consortium as the marketing man who would handle the exploitation, Jack Dryden began his own investigation of what lay behind this apparent phenomenon who had never appeared on a sports track, was totally unknown in the world of athletics, yet was confidently predicted by Dr. Serafin to be capable of running the world’s greatest female athletes into the ground. The truth, which he gradually uncovered, blighted even his ruthlessly commercial excitement at handling the merchandising goldmine of the century