This book has also been written for some time, like The Document, and the manuscript was also sitting in a box with half a dozen others gathering dust and not quite as complete, so this month it is going to get the makeover, a first draft for the editor.
And so it begins…
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I’ve been thinking about the title.
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Was not quite sure how this story was going to go because it is very difficult to think that you would betray your family, your friends, the people you work with, or on a grander scale, your country.
In the case of the latter, it is treason, and that’s a word that hasn’t been bandied around since the end of the second world war.
Until of course, the January 6 insurrection – if that was what it was. There seem to be two schools of thought on that matter.
But that has nothing to do with this story.
There are sayings that came out of Britain, like loose lips sink ships, that spies for the Nazis were everywhere, listening in keyholes. I saw a short film that was shown in the cinemas during the war showing examples of what those fifth columnists were like.
Yes, the enemy within, was also known as the fifth column.
Later there were people gathering documents and military and other secrets to sell to other countries like Russia.
Later still there are people who look like us, who are working for foreign countries, actively pursuing industrial information to copy products and processes.
You would not recognise them, and more than likely you wouldn’t know if they were trying to get you to tell them about certain things, recognising it as only an interest in what you do.
Fortunately, our story is not quite that dramatic, but it does give food for thought!
Enough rumination, it’s time to go back to work.
Thrills, Spills, and just a dash of Romance 