PERSEPHONE ABRIDGED contains PART TWO of the Persephone novel text. The early Harrington years in 1930s Berlin are excluded and the abridged novel concerns itself with what the writer son, David Harrington, and his dancer wife, Anne, will do with Michael Harrington's extraordinary work. China has offered a billion dollars for it and there are more than a hundred intelligence agencies that will kill to get it, including those in the United States.