Hidden Beyond Detection – a spy thriller
Hidden Beyond Detection is a spy thriller set in 2014. It follows Akila Sinclair, a young intelligence analyst who must become what she hates most in order to prove …
Month: October 2020
The assassination – a 2-page story of an ethical dilemma
‘Is he actually proposing a kill order? That we should become involved in an assassination?’ The intelligence researcher’s eyes widened.
Paranoia – a 2-page story of work overload and OSINT
31 October 2020
Mental health, Intelligence research, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), Short stories
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The paranoia was returning. Isabelle’s head throbbed with pain and her eyes were loosing their focus. She had too many types of intelligence feed to research.
Forced confession – a 2-page story of an analyst’s dilema
The forced confession was in stilted Arabic with words that the suspect never used, and the recording from the interview had been replaced by a transcript.
Suicide risk – 2-page story of a failed intelligence officer
Death or the classroom. Mohammed planned to sit at the back of the room and contemplate the appropriate method of suicide for a failed intelligence officer.
Presumed guilty – a story of intrusive surveillance
30 October 2020
Duty of care, Ethics - threats and hope, Intelligence officers, Mental health, Short stories, Surveillance
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‘She’s a journalist, that makes her guilty,’ the intelligence officer declared. ‘Get me evidence for intrusive surveillance and we’ll find her dirty secrets.’
The price of secrecy-first – a 2½-page story
Mikael’s secrecy-first speech was cut short by the minister. ‘Tell me more about this cyber-attack. Are they really intending to cripple our railway network?’
A delicate liaison – a 2-page story of fear and bullying
29 October 2020
Duty of care, Ethics - threats and hope, Intelligence liaison, Mental health, Short stories
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“Francesca will be in danger,” Graziano warned. It wasn’t the role of an intelligence liaison operative to state the obvious but he feared for her.
A special kind of odd – a 2-page story of intelligence research
Jon screamed silently at the quantity of raw intelligence. There were thousands of suspicious persons, highlighted because the AI computers had seen patterns that matched people on the terrorist …
About Adrian Cowderoy – emerging spy thriller author
Away from my career as a Chartered IT Professional, I'm a spy thriller author. That includes the novels and the 10+ flash fiction stories on this website.