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CARIS WHEELER

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Full Name: Caris Wheeler
Series Name: The Forgotten Spy
Nationality: American
Organization: CIA
Occupation Agent

Creator: Warren Ray
Time Span: 2020 - 2020

ABOUT THE SERIES

Caris Wheeler, the Forgotten Spy, is an agent with the CIA.

Was an agent. Was being the main word here because she has not been an operative for quite a few years, emphasis on the word 'quite'. To explain that just a tad more, there is a passage in her adventures that talks about "back in the day when she worked for the CIA. She'd been a case worker and had worked the world over. Besides handling spies, she'd operated undercover and did some wet work herself. These were mostly out of black sites that were off the books. It had been forty years since she used those skills and she was rusty."

An interesting point that will play a role in things in these stories is the fact that the timeframe is a few years in the future. This is evidenced by the fact that self-driving cars are not only ubiquitous, they are required. "These days, only cops were allowed to drive cars." A couple other tidbits like that lace the pages.

It is not unusual to have a series about a retired spy but ... forty years retired? Wheeler put in her time and left the Agency when she was around 55 years old. She is, when we first meet her, 95 years old. "She's an old school spy who traveled the world when she was younger, working primarily in Asia and Eastern Europe." Now she lives alone, having lost her husband as well as her daughter and her husband in a car accident many years before, on a small tract of land a fair distance from the nearest neighbor because she has come to crave her privacy.

Why is she suddenly back "in the game" after so many years away and so very much older with all of the pains and aches and infirmities that are normal for anyone nearly a century old? A blurb for the first short adventure tells us that "Caris Wheeler is a long retired spy who has been given a second chance."

What is this second chance? Well, you need to read the adventures to learn more but it does involve this old lady living on her own and not wanting trouble getting pulled nevertheless into a messy problem and as a result, she is not as old as she used to be.

Good Lines:
- Observation made by Caris upon finding someone who had been stabbed, "The sensation of a knife penetrating you is unimaginable until it happens".

NOVELLAS AND SHORT STORIES

Number of Stories:3
First Appearance:2020
Last Appearance:2020

1 Forgotten Spy Forgotten Spy
Written by Warren Ray
Copyright: 2020

"An old lady's world is turned upside down when a stranger knocks on her door. The stranger needs help but it's late at night. Can she trust him?
She's hesitant because he's bleeding but she can't refuse someone in need. No good deed goes unpunished and her charitable act puts her in immediate danger. Now she has an impossible decision to make. Can she save herself from certain death? With only two options to choose from - it doesn't seem likely."

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2 Still Lethal Still Lethal
Written by Warren Ray
Copyright: 2020

"How long will it last? Wouldn't it be on your mind? Being youthful again can be intoxicating but it's temporary, so don't waste time. In a desperate effort to escape a hit squad, chances are taken that include stealing, relying on a mob boss, and putting innocent lives in danger. These are the cards that have been dealt and must be played. But is there enough time before it wears off?"

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3 Last Option Last Option
Written by Warren Ray
Copyright: 2020

"An innocent life is put in danger. It was her fault. Can she set things right? She's not ready but she has no choice. In the search for her grandson she investigates an obscure lead that produces deadly consequences. To make things right means one thing but it was the last thing she wanted to do. It was eventually going to come to this but she wanted more time. But time is never on her side"


MY COMMENTS

These three novelettes are really one story broken into thirds but in excellent places; they each end with the goal for that portion completed but with the knowledge that there is more to do so on to the next one. Unfortunately, the author decided after the third there would be no more. The main fight against the bad guys was brought to a quite satisfying conclusion but I really, really wanted to know what happened next. A lot!

Caris Wheeler is a fascinating character and the concept of a really old lady going through what she does is awesome. And the writing was very good with the story not bogging down anywhere. I just wish I knew .... ah, well!

GRADE

My Grade: B

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