英格．阿瓦德（Inga Arvad），一位同時參與美國二十世紀最耀眼與最黑暗歷史時刻的傳奇千面女郎——

她是美國前總統約翰甘迺迪一生摯愛，1936年柏林奧運希特勒的特邀座上賓。她是演員、駐外記者、華府人氣專欄作家、曾與獵頭部落生活的探險家、好萊塢最具影響力的八卦專欄作家之一；她長期被懷疑為納粹間諜，這一點差點讓甘迺迪被踢出海軍，卻也因而引發一連串事件，終使甘迺迪成為國民戰爭英雄。

阿瓦德的一生始終活在大歷史與八卦傳言的曖昧交會處。本書引人入勝道出英格的傳奇，並充分展現個人私生活如何影響牽動公共事件。同時，這本傳記也宛如一則希區考克式的驚悚故事，看見人一但被扣上不公的指控，要證明自身清白何其艱難，以阿瓦德的話來說，曾經的光環滑落，成為絞刑台上的繩環。

除了與甘迺迪轟動的一段情、希特勒的關愛，阿瓦德結過三次婚，對象分別是：一位埃及外交官（始終堅持他倆未曾離婚）、連卓別林也譽為天才的電影導演費侯斯（Paul Fejos），以及著名西部片演員麥考伊（Tim McCoy）。與她過從甚密的還包括名外科醫師卡恩（William Cahan）、多產作家根室（John Gunther）、邱吉爾的左右手布思比男爵（Robert Boothby）。「華爾街獨狼」投資家巴魯克（Bernard Baruch）追求過她，當時世界首富瑞典實業家文內-葛倫（Axel Wenner-Gren）曾提議以一百萬美金為酬勞，希望阿瓦達為他生小孩。

阿瓦德是1931年丹麥小姐選美冠軍，然而讓歐美眾政經菁英傾倒的不僅是她的美貌，更是她熱愛生命的活力。她擅長與人相處，大膽、富冒險心，聰明才智與這些男人相比毫不遜色。英加．阿瓦德，有如著有《遠離非洲》的丹麥人最鍾愛才女狄尼森（Isak Dinesen）或美國第一位女外交官暨文學家盧斯夫人（Clare Boothe Luce），其不凡的一生映照出當時對女性的刻板印象，同時展現複雜的、令人著迷的挑戰姿態。

Scott Farris is a former bureau chief for United Press International and a political columnist. He is the author of ALMOST PRESIDENT: The Men Who Lost the Race but Changed the Nation and KENNEDY AND REAGAN: Why Their Legacies Endure. He is the Director of Government Relations for TransCanada and lives with his family in Portland, Oregon.

Scott Farris pulls back the curtain on a fascinating era in American history and an intriguing woman who lived through it. Inga Arvad’s complexity is what makes the book so compelling. It seems she lived multiple lives and was part of the brightest and darkest moments in twentieth-century American history. (Kate Andersen Brower, New York Times bestselling author of First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies and The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House)

Scott Farris’s Inga is a jewel of a book—for Inga Arvad led a life that no novelist could have invented. Danish by birth, an immigrant American by choice, she bewitched men by her beauty, her journalistic flair, and that rarest of talents: to make others feel better about themselves than perhaps they had a right to. Inga’s extraordinary life story takes us across whole continents, featuring financiers, filmmakers, adventurers and politicians—including, most spectacularly, the young JFK. It is the stuff of legend—yet every word is true, told by a biographer of great sensitivity, narrative skill, and unremitting honesty. (Nigel Hamilton, New York Times bestselling author of JFK: Reckless Youth and Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943)

Scott Farris has written a meticulously researched, scrupulously sensitive account of Inga Arvad’s truly remarkable odyssey and her genuine romance with the young John F. Kennedy. A page-turner par excellence, Inga disentangles fact from fiction about the woman who enchanted everyone from Hitler to Hollywood stars. (Andrew Nagorski, author of The Nazi Hunters and Hitlerland)

In this beautifully detailed biography, Scott Farris shines a light on the complex life of Inga Arvad, a woman who received admiration from Hitler and sincere love from JFK. With exhaustive research and a fast-paced narrative, Farris reminds us that Arvad was more than just a pretty face, but a woman of tremendous influence and ability, one whose story deserves to be told.(Nathalia Holt, New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us From Missiles to the Moon to Mars and Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV)