DS-166 Secret Passage
Secret Passage
Driveshaft Library
(same as HIS69-265)
DS-166
Nick Willams
$3.95
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Preface
The complex world we live in today requires many different types of political and social entities to insure the survival of our varied lifestyles. Some of these, like our political parties, social welfare agencies, defense agencies, are, for the most part, fairly open about their activities. However, there exist increasingly within our police and enforcement agencies, from the small town police department to the state welfare agencies, men who perform their jobs clandestinely. From the undercover narcotics agent to the Welfare Fraud Investigator, to the Postal Inspector, secret agents have come to be an additional stratum in our society.
The society in which we live is marked by an increased social paranoia—the decay of the inner cities, the burgeoning crime rate, even in rural areas, increased traffic in narcotics, political vigilantism, have all added to the intense suspicion of all men that one finds in the large cities and often times in the smaller communities of the country. Nowhere is this paranoia more rampant than within the security intelligence community.
No more closed stratum of society exists. The rules of these communities require their operatives to be above reproach morally.
But do these rules function well? Are our security and intelligence operatives a cut above the rest of us in their moral choices. A few men and women have lately come forward to tell us that they are not. We find there are men in the employment of our government that we would not care to have as neighbors, whose means of earning a living, a living paid by the taxpayers, is morally and ethically repugnant. These men function in the name-of National Security. They are hidden away in our embassies, under the cover of private businesses, in the guise of private citizens. They violate all social rules that impede the performance of their missions. But what happens when the mission becomes so repugnant to them personally that the individual agent finds himself unable to perform the task assigned? What happens when the individual agent discovers in himself the seeds of dissent and attempts to leave the intelligence community?
Andrew Carnegie Jefferson was to discover the answers to these questions the hard way. Efficient, intelligent, deadly when necessary, Jefferson lived a rich and exciting life as an Agent of The Company with special discretionary powers. He was assigned only the most difficult and complex missions—those which might require the use of violence or even assassination to accomplish the mission. He never questioned those missions. He enjoyed them, enjoyed The Hunt, yet until he was sent to Berlin to trap a Russian agent he had little inkling of the private desires and passions that surged beneath the cool, efficient exterior. Until he encountered the Russian Agent, Sergei Luponovitch, he had no idea of the depth and intensity of his own needs. The Hunt, the meetings with the Russian, revealed to Andrew his own needs. In the twisted conflicts that surrounded the two men, Andrew learned to free his own emotion, learned to accept and to relish his own desires.
Within hours of Luponovitch’s death, Andrew found himself one of the most wanted men in Europe. The Company had marked him for “Termination with extreme prejudice.” He was fair game for any Company man who spotted him.
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