Secret Police

Inspired by contemporary geo-politics, World War II technology and style, and the major personalities that have shaped nations since the dawn of civilization. > Brendan is a mild-mannered career government worker, a pencil pusher with an ordinary life. When Jackson, a National Police operative, is tasked by the ruling cabal with carrying out secret political assassinations she decides to both do her job beyond expectation and add a layer of security. Brendan has access to records of all the Citizens in the prefecture, allowing Jackson to target the right people. She also forces him into helping with the actual killings and collects forensic evidence against him. Brendan is ripe for blackmail as his wife, Talibah, and child are practitioners of a now illegal religion and members of a now unwelcome ethnic group native to the land, and are hiding in a secret room in their large house. Jackson knows this, uses it, and Brendan is helpless. Not to rest on her laurels there, Jackson tracks down the highest military officer in the land, the Admiral Supreme, and suggests that if there were a coup she just might be able to provide evidence to seal the fates of the controversial and corrupt Executive of the Nation State and his allies. The Admiral is wrestling with his conscience. For his entire life duty to state, to self, and to the Executive were the same. Now they are at odds as the Executive pushes the boundaries of his power. Jackson is playing all sides in order to escape with her life when the fallout settles, and perhaps come out a bit better off, and poor Brendan is crushed under the wheels of history as well as the tortured memory of the murderous nights Jackson forced upon him.