Paula Broadwell was the valedictorian of her high school class and homecoming queen, a fitness champion at West Point with a graduate degree from Harvard, and a model for a machine gun manufacturer. It may have been those qualities — and a string of achievements that began in her native North Dakota, where she was state student council president, an all-state basketball player and orchestra concertmistress — that drew the attention of David H Petraeus, the US's top spy and a four-star general. In this picture, author Paula Broadwell is discussing her biography of general David Petraeus on a TV show in New York on January 25, 2012. (Reuters Photo)