Hey folks! Welcome to the month of June, and I have some exciting news: A brand new short story that I just dreamed up the other day is ready for your reading pleasure! Check out this excerpt from Word of Mouth, a new spy thriller-themed historical fiction short story, inspired by the video game Phantom Doctrine:
After a car bomb destroys the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and kills her handler, "Leslie", CIA operative Elizabeth "Deadpan" Braider and her team race against time to discover vital evidence of a potential nuclear weapons conspiracy. It'll take all their skill and training if they want to find what they're looking for - and get out alive...
In all visual respects, Elizabeth Braider was the archetypal nondescript girl-next-door and could have fit in on nearly any street in the United States or abroad with little effort. Slender, fair-skinned, and rather plain-faced, with a scattering of freckles across her nose and cheeks, she had the bearing of a curious tourist as she surveyed her surroundings from behind round sunglasses that shaded her dark brown eyes from the sunset. Unlike a tourist, however, she knew exactly where she was going. It would have taken a very practiced eye to notice the slight bulge of a concealed handgun under the right side of her jacket or the lightweight bulletproof vest she wore under her blouse – or, for that matter, to figure out that Elizabeth Braider was no tourist at all (though she had visited her share of unique locations) but was rather a veteran CIA operative operating under the codename “Deadpan”.
Elizabeth leaned her head slightly into the left side of her headscarf as a voice came through the nearly invisible headset tucked behind her left ear. “Bolt to Deadpan, do you copy?” “I copy,” she said quietly, barely moving her lips. “What am I looking at here, Bolt?” “You’re one block east. The morgue should be just up ahead past that - a concrete frame building, painted white. Main is on the north side, three windows on the front. You’ll be going in the east side alley entrance.”
Like what you see? Check out the full work on Wattpad! I'll also be posting it all as text on this blog shortly.
*The overall plot of this story is based on "Last Rites" from Phantom Doctrine, © Good Shepherd Entertainment and CreativeForge Games. No copyright infringement intended. Elizabeth and all other characters are fictional, and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is unintentional. Events, locations, and names are either fictional or used in a fictitious manner.
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