White Lies
Chapter One
You gotta wonder why they shoot spies. Soldiers rape, pillage, burn and shoot everybody in sight. They'll run a tank over your house with you in it. Spies, on the other hand, obey traffic lights, don't jaywalk, and mostly take pictures of military installations, or whatever. There's something weird about this. If the Japanese had caught the bombers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki they would have been required to read them their rights as prisoners of war and make sure they got the right amount of mail from the Red Cross -- although they may not have been in the mood -- but those are the rules. If they'd caught a spy taking pictures of the rubble, they could have shot him on the spot.
I dragged my obsessing little mind out of the netherland, where it lives a good deal of the time, and back to the business at hand. I was sitting in my office waiting for a man whose name I didn't know with a problem I didn't know anything about. It wasn't par for the course but it wasn't completely unusual, either, given what kind of psychologist I am. I assess and treat perpetrators and victims of various kinds of violence. Given that, it wasn't like every ... read full excerpt from White Lies ebook
