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FBI Books and History
In the 1950s, the British intelligence establishment was shocked to discover they had been infiltrated by an entire Soviet spy network. Do unto others as you would have them do to you, is not a mantra in the spy world. It was a blow to the self-confidence and prestige of their Secret Service. The espionage battle was a real justified suspicion, confirmed by the CIA.
Britain had been successful in their battle against Germany with amazing results. What had gone wrong? The baton was passed to the US and Britain was firmly in second place by 1952 when I was five years old, Lyndon Johnson, ordered a secret investigation into the entire structure of British intelligence.
The James Bond books ignored this fact. He viewed the British Secret Service as omnipotent and millions of Americans and British readers spread the legends of British espionage.
Ian Fleming in the James Bond novels, was able to spread a wide belief that Britain produced the best spies in the world, and incredibly, that myth stuck.
As my characters and plots emerge, in many instances, I am drawing from my experiences. Even my demonology derives from evildoers in the '60s and '70s era having an order of untrustworthiness. I try to endow my characters with realistic, and often elaborate, past histories that placed them more solidly somehow in the present. The brutal cult leader is also a human and drug trafficker who has built a career as an entrepreneur selling health products, and using his recruits to employ his operations. Some of his recruits will move up the rank, and learn what it means to torture and murder the dissident in their community.
The instances of abuse I've chosen, are a subtle indication that the menace of cultism lurks in the heart of many religious organizations. Special Agent Lexi Hunter's allies have seen in the spin in the service or are from families that were in the service. Lexi is unusual. She was motivated to become an FBI agent because of the kidnapping of her best friend in their first year in college.
The devastation caused her to turn from law school to Quantico. Her personal pain is reflected through questioning religion, looking for her friend, and helping her friend overcome amnesia after she's rescued with her 10-year-old daughter, Angel.
Lexi visits and revisits the haunted forest of memory as she recalls almost dying in a hyperbaric chamber, meant to torture her and David Gabriel Lyons as he died, bleeding out while watching Lexi die. But no one knows what happened to David's body when he was taken away in the ambulance. Where is David? Is he alive?
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