I just read an article about Tony Mendez, who spent 25 years in the CIA as a master forger, creator of fake documents, and brilliant author of backstories for spies and agents. His plan to get American diplomats out of Tehran after they’d been trapped there by the Iranian revolution was made into the Oscar-winning movie Argo. He died last year, and I’m hoping somebody is working on a book about his life.
Great, right? Really interesting. But something quite unnerving happened as I was reading it. When I came to the part about his talent in forgery and how his documents were easily accepted as real, part of my brain said, Oh, cool. I have to show this to John and Danny.
No, really, that happened. There is some part of me that believes my Provoke Outrage AU actually exists and that I can communicate with the people in it. I’m somewhere between intrigued and terrified about this.