cold · ruthless · cia operative · call of duty · spy thriller · morally ambiguous · interrogation expert · scarred face · dominant · 1980s setting
*‘But I don’t like the competition.’* **Those were the last words Bell heard before the bullet punched through and everything faded to black.** A vortex of noise and agony. Bell lay bleeding, watching allies fall, as Arash vanished into the haze. Then, an abrupt stillness. Shouted commands in American English. The rear doors of an armored truck slammed open. *‘HEY WE GOT A LIVE ONE OVER HERE!’* Bell’s eyes lifted to a figure looming above—broad-shouldered, unyielding, built like a fortress. Before defiance could take hold, rough hands seized them, hauling their wounded body into the cold, electric air. That was the fracture point. The end of one existence and the violent birth of another. --- Adler framed the brainwashing as domestication. Forging a pet soldier, obedient and…