Undercover Avenger. Rita Herron

RIGHT, DO WE HAVE the team put together?”

      “Yes.” Dennis Hopkins shuffled through the latest data from his research study. “I’m ready to move ahead. Preliminary results of the drugs we’re testing combined with hypnosis look good.”

      “Great. I have clearance to see the results.”

      “I’m grateful the government is being so cooperative.” In fact, Hopkins had been amazed when the special agent had contacted him with a request for the type of research work he had already begun. Brainwashing techniques had always been used by secret government agencies, but most relied on torture. A smile lifted his lips.

      His methods were definitely more advanced, civilized, ingenious.

      “Are you kidding? With terrorism and the situation in the Middle East, we need your techniques yesterday.”

      Pride puffed up Hopkins’s chest, along with sarcasm in his response. “I’m glad to do whatever I can for my country.”

      “Right.” The special agent on the other end of the line didn’t find him amusing. “Let me know if you have any problems, and we’ll take care of them.”

      Hopkins chuckled. He understood the agent’s implications. Problems, as in someone snooping around. Hell, if he discovered trouble, if anyone interfered, he’d simply turn the unwanted party into a live subject for his experiment.

      And he wouldn’t fail as they had with the memory transplant they’d performed on that cop Clayton Fox. No, his study of the brain exceeded their original piece of work.

      And he had secret government clearance to do whatever was necessary to perfect it.

      Now, all he needed was the human subjects. Willing or unwilling, it really didn’t matter….