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Broken Minds: The Psychological Toll of Espionage Explored in B.W. Leavitt’s Latest Thriller

 


Most spy novels dazzle readers with car chases and high-tech gadgets. B.W.
Leavitt’s How to Train a Spy takes a darker path, peeling back the layers of
espionage to reveal its most disturbing casualty: the human mind.
Leavitt's book is about former Army Sergeant Brian Lewis, a committed family
man, as he's recruited into a covert government program meant to build the
world's greatest operators. The twist? Suppose Brian is going to be the ultimate
spy. In that case, he'll have to leave behind his family, his name, and eventually
himself. Throughout the book, Brian undergoes brutal physical and psychological
conditioning. Sleep-learning programs feed him new languages and strategies.
Virtual reality missions simulate his death over and over, rewiring his fear
responses. Each step strips away pieces of the man he used to be. After his
makeover, readers are left wondering: Is there anything of Brian Lewis remaining
at all? “Espionage stories are often about external conflicts,” says Leavitt. “I wanted to
explore the internal war, a person’s fight to hold on to their humanity in an
environment designed to erase it.”


The emotional core of the book is in Brian's interactions with his wife and children.
Their last holiday together, staged as a sendoff, torments the story. Brian grapples
with notions of home in defiance of his teachers' attempts to release him from it
all. His internal narrative is as tense and compelling as the clandestine activities
he performs later. This psychological vision distinguishes How to Train a Spy from run-of the-mill thrillers. It's a novel that's as much about identity collapse as it is about global
intrigue. With governments fiddling with brain implants, behavior conditioning,
and electronic espionage these days, Leavitt's vision proves uncomfortably close.
Available on Amazon, How to Train a Spy will resonate with fans of literary
thrillers and readers fascinated by the human cost of secrecy.

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Author: Bruce Leavitt
Amazon: How To Train A Spy
Website: http://bwleavitt.com
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