This book has finally come back from the Editor, so this month it is going to get a second revision, a second draft for the editor, and beta readers.
And so it begins...
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Who can you trust?
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In the shadowy world of espionage, the new recruits are taught to trust no one, only their instincts.
Everyone lies. Even they will, and very convincingly, during the execution of their duties. The first time, they assumed a cover identity, and have a legend that is nothing like who they really are.
In other words, spies start out being normal people, and over time they are moulded into someone, and something, they were not. Whatever ideals, thoughts, and beliefs they had before are discarded, in a sense, so that they can be someone else.
Someone who is ready and prepared to do what is necessary to keep the world safe from…
Well, pretty much people they gradually become. It takes a monster, really, to do what is necessary, to kill another human being, justifying it by saying they are wrong, and you are right, to blackmail; cajole, and force others to do basically what is wrong just so right will prevail.
The story evolved a little in the rewrite, where our protagonist is a new agent in the field. Things go wrong, and he wants to know why.
He's told that's not for him to decide, or question, that in essence he is merely a blunt instrument who takes orders and executes them, without question, trusting the people who send him that it is in the name of justice.
You can't be an agent in the field with a conscience.
Perhaps Jack will be one of the first.
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