Dear Reader,

Between the cardboard covers of this book is the story that shaped my life in its entirety. Perhaps you could call it a brief synopsis of the last 3 months, but in this case, the whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. It’s really much more than that.

I never planned on leaving my house in the middle of the night when I was just a child, but then again, no one really does. When you join MI5, I guess you come to the realization that your life is an exception. I guess that no one with a normal life would ever experience many of the events described in this book. Normal is a funny word though. It implies that nothing out of the ordinary happens to you, but then that begs the question: What is ordinary? My life is the perfect example of why perhaps the words normal and ordinary should not exist.

Sincerely,

Oliver Chrysanthemum Shrubert


Cover Illustration by Grace Coffee