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They recruited and trained her for their purposes. She turned out better than they expected.

No one is born a spy.

In one way or another, every “righteous” clandestine operative is sought out, enlisted, and trained for the difficult and often terrible work intended to ensure that the principles of freedom triumph over ideologies that seek to dominate and enslave.

The year is 1977; the Cold War is intensifying. Helena Portland—Laynie to her family—is set to graduate from the University of Washington, when recruiters from Marstead International invite her to dinner and an informal employment interview. Laynie is flattered: Marstead International is a technology and aeronautics firm with a global presence and reputation.

But behind their corporate image? Marstead is a front for joint U.S./NATO covert operations.

Not far into the dinner conversation, the recruiters make their pitch: “We have offices around the world, Miss Portland, and we actively seek college graduates with the right mix of aptitude and skills to work and grow within our worldwide market. Actually, we have been observing you for some time. We feel that you have the potential to serve . . . the interests of your country.”

Laynie catches their drift and confronts it. “Let me see if I understand you correctly. You are representatives of a U.S. intelligence agency, unnamed so far, and you are trying to recruit me. Do I have it right?”

When Laynie accepts Marstead’s offer, she is sent through the Company’s rigorous tradecraft and tactical training program. Laynie soon discovers that the world of clandestine service is dirty business. To succeed, operatives must bend and twist the tenets of liberty. Along the way, noble objectives tarnish and corrode, hearts harden, and methods and means drag virtue into the gutter.

Laynie perseveres at the work set before her; she enters into it because she holds a secret—a secret she has never shared with anyone, a view of herself that not only condones the awful choices she is asked to make, but justifies them.

I am worthless; my life has no value. I am only useful when the work I do serves a greater purpose.

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Psalm 118:6

Dear Lord,

Thank you so much that you are always with me. Thank you for reminding me that I don’t need to be afraid because you’re there, watching over me. Thank you that you are far greater than anything that could happen to me in this world, and I need only trust in you.

Amen

Writing Progress

Last week in my Camille Elliot newsletter, I posted a lace swatch I just finished, which I’m rather proud of. Click here to check it out if you’re interested.

I had a terrible week for my IBS. The problem is that I don’t know what I ate that caused it. I’ve been keeping a food journal but no matter how much I pore over it, nothing jumps out as being the culprit.

So unfortunately I didn’t get much done on Sushi and Suspicions, a Christian contemporary romantic suspense that will be releasing in June in the multi-author box set Summer Suspicions. I wanted to have finished it by now, but it’s just too hard for me to concentrate when I have nausea from the IBS.

But here’s a snippet I wrote before the IBS hit:

Resignedly, Liv stepped out so Benny could clearly see her. She just hoped he wouldn't freak out—

Benny took one look at Liv and gagged. He even turned to the side and clapped a hand over his mouth as if he were going to vomit.

"Oh, come on!” Liv protested.

Benny ignored her. "Lennox, I thought you were cool, man! This is not cool. This is, like, the deepest betrayal. This is like when you promise a shipment of AK-12s and they deliver these cheap knockoffs from China that explode as soon as you touch them. I like all my fingers, man! Don't bring stuff into my house that's going to blow up my fingers!"

"I'm not going to blow up your fingers!" Liv said.

"She's not going to blow up your fingers," Lennox said.

This was absurd. Liv threw out her hands. "Do you want me to apologize? When I saw you in Sonoma, I thought you were doing something illegal."

"Oh, I was totally doing something illegal," Benny said shamelessly. "But I missed my flight home because I had to talk to the Sonoma police. That Detective Carter guy was really tedious and irritating, although he did get me the vanilla latte I asked for, and it didn't even look like he spit in it. I guess he was cool, if he wasn't an annoying police officer."

Lennox looked like he had a headache. "Benny, can we just go to your house? I don't want to have this conversation in the middle of your driveway."

"It's not a driveway, man, it's an access road." Benny moved around to the passenger side door and climbed into the seat. "Ow!" He pulled Liv's purse from under his butt and carelessly tossed it into the backseat.

"Fane, give me your gun. I'm going to shoot him."

"Don't shoot him until we get the information we need from him."

"And then I can shoot him?"

"I can hear you, you know," Benny called from the car. "It would be hurtful if I wasn't such a magnanimous human being."

I had a lot of fun writing Benny! I hope you’ll enjoy the book when it comes out.

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That’s it for this newsletter! Happy reading!

Camy

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