The Head of a secret Western intelligence agency is forced to undergo a deadly test of allegiance...but things are not as they seem. (Screenplay, Novel and Play).

SYNOPSIS:

What if Western nations considered the road ahead highly dangerous? – Peak oil, followed by global warming - a global depression that dwarfs the ’29 crash, the capitalist system under threat as the energy crisis deepens. The security of the entire Western world might be at risk. A single hurricane like ‘Katrina’ showed how fragile the veneer of law and order truly was. And what if, with global warming, there were dozens of Katrinas taking place simultaneously throughout the world? Everyone is openly saying that only an authoritarian government can meet the challenges ahead, so why not have one?

What if Western countries decided that a ‘New World Order’ was now absolutely necessary? What sort of organization could ensure that such an ‘order’ came into being and endured? It would have to be a super espionage network, and it would have to be headed by the greatest spy in the Western World.

‘Operations’ was approved by ‘The Alliance’ - a coalition of Western governments. Operations’ brief is straightforward: Protect free enterprise and the capitalist way of life - for without vigorous free enterprise democracy might fail.

But then what if the unthinkable happened? What if the super leader of this organization turned traitor? Who would know, and who would, or even could, catch him?

Ludwig, director of the CIA, is invited to head Operations. As the first director of Operations, he ‘wrote the book’ - all procedures are his invention. But a problem arises. Ludwig finds he must liquidate a retired US Senator who has devised a new system of participatory government. The new system is clever, too clever. For it actually answers Plato’s aphorism - “Who will watch the watchers?”

Through flashback it is revealed that twenty years prior the senator to now be liquidated is the one who gave Ludwig his job as head of the CIA. Ludwig finds himself further trapped by a Catch-22: He is sworn to protect free enterprise so as to preserve democracy, but must now eliminate a man trying to improve democracy, in order to protect free enterprise from disruption.

Operations has its own watcher - ‘Mantle’. Mantle intervenes from time to time to ensure Operations runs strictly to its mandate. When Ludwig disobeys, Mantle finds they are also caught in a dilemma: They must follow procedures, invented by Ludwig, against Ludwig. So who will win? Who knows the game best? And can you believe what you are seeing?

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