Laynie Portland, Spy Rising—The Prequel by Vikki Kestell

Author:Vikki Kestell [Kestell, Vikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religious & Inspirational Fiction, Christian Books & Bibles, Espionage, Thriller, Spy, Spies, Christian action & adventure, International Mystery & Crime, women sleuths, Mystery & Detective, Political, Intrigue, Danger, suspense, action & adventure suspense, Christian Political Thriller, Christian Mystery & Suspense, Christian Romance Mystery & Suspense
Publisher: Faith-Filled Fiction
Published: 2019-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

ON DAY TWO, TRAINEES were singled out and assigned missions with experienced operatives, complete strangers to them, but whose skills and loyalties the trainees were told to place their faith in. At first, the experienced operatives designed and directed the operations, giving the trainees a view into their expert methods.

Later, the trainees were given their own teams and were issued mission objectives. The scenarios called for the trainees to design the operation, assign their teammates to operational positions, and bear responsibility for the results: either a job well done or a failed exercise.

Now, as the trainees moved within the city, they ran actual SDRs (surveillance detection routes) to identify and lose real “tails.” They avoided detection and fought through very real ambushes. If fired upon, they fired back.

The instructors had added “capture” to the exercises, too, forcing the trainees to rely upon their SERE training. When a student was captured, he found out, to his dismay, that Little London had its own interrogation facilities.

Their captors put a hood over the trainee’s head and dragged him down into a basement dank with moisture—or they drugged the student when she was apprehended, and the student awoke, hours later, on the cold, unforgiving concrete floor of a pitch-black cell, somewhere underground. Either way, the unlucky students who failed to evade apprehension endured hours of “persuasive” interrogations that tested their resolve.

Of course, “luck” had nothing to do with it. No matter what a student did, the deck was stacked against him or her. The trainee was betting against the house, and the house always won: No trainee was allowed to escape the mandatory testing of their resolve.

Adding on to the SERE course, the students’ captors followed the current scenario, questioning their prisoners regarding their identity, their agency, and their mission objectives. When students refused to cooperate, their captors stripped them and poured ice water on them. The trainees sat or laid on the wet cement for hours—or they were strung up by their hands, hanging from the ceiling until their arms and shoulders burned then went numb.

Most important, they had to accomplish their missions: If they “died” during a scenario, they failed, and too many scenario failures would get them scrubbed.

The trainees worked around the clock, with little time to sleep or eat, running op after op, role after role, until Laynie felt as though she were caught up in a dream. When her cognitive functions grew sluggish and faltered, the subconscious, proficient part of her mind—that combination of continual, repeated training and its complementary muscle memory, bordering on near instinct—locked in and took over.

It was then that Laynie began to trust herself; she learned to listen to her gut, plan on the fly, issue clear and succinct orders, hit the enemy hard and fast, demand more from herself than she had left in the tank, survive the loss of teammates, and push her remaining crew to ultimate success. She didn’t notice when her fellow trainees began to rely upon her leadership, to naturally turn to her for direction.

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