Inspiration
for Red Tape Protector
By
Kathy Kulig
Think
high stakes espionage is a man’s game? Women operatives tend to be overlooked
in history books, but they have demonstrated their bravery and played a major
role in protecting our nation as well as working in many parts of the world.
Sometimes their techniques may be different than men, but the results are quite
impressive. Many of these women will never be recognized for the work they did
because they kept a low profile and died while working undercover.
These
women have conducted missions such as information gathering, assassinations,
and sabotage, sometimes using seduction and even stripping to get what they
want. Here are a few women ‘spies’ who gave me inspiration for the FLC Case
Files series. There are many more! See more about the lasted release, Red Tape
Protector, Book 2 at the end.
Maria Isabella
“Belle” Boyd – Born in Virginia, US, Country of Allegiance - America.
She was a Confederate spy. She visited Union camps where she gathered
information and also acted as a courier. Her beauty and flirtatious manner with
the Union soldiers helped her to acquire the information she needed. She was
imprisoned and shot at, was later released. She called herself the “Cleopatra
of the Secession.” She married an Englishman who had fought in the Union army
and had four children. After divorcing him, she married an actor, seventeen
years her junior. She died of a heart attack at age 56.
During
the American Revolution the “patriots in
petticoats” were British and American housewives, young girls, cooks and
maids. They had easy access to the camps of soldiers and could collect
information, eavesdrop on conversation and learn about troop movements,
equipment and food shortages, etc. Some reported directly to General
Washington.
Agent 355 was the
code used for an unknown female spy used by the Culper Spy Ring during the
American Revolution. She uncovered Benedict Arnold’s treason and played an
important role in counter intelligence. Her true identity is still a mystery.
Anna Nancy Smith
Strong
was part of the Culper Spy Ring and hung clothes on a clothes line to send
coded messages on a farm in New York.
Sacagawea was a
scout and guide for the Lewis and Clark reconnaissance expedition secretly
ordered by Thomas Jefferson.
Elizabeth Burgin helped
about 200 prisoners escape from a prison ship during the Revolutionary War.
British intelligence has a ransom for her arrest.
Nancy Ward a Cherokee
also called Nanye-hi. She helped free and save the lives of frontier prisoners,
sparing them from torture and burnings.
During
the Civil War, Rose O’Neal Greenhow was
a spymaster and operative working in Washington DC for the Confederate. She was
a socialite that hosted parties for the military and political leaders and
managed to collect intelligence. She was arrested and imprisoned by Allen
Pinkerton in 1861.
RED TAPE PROTECTOR, Book 2
in the FLC Case Files series is an erotic romantic suspense with BDSM elements.
If you’ve watched House of Cards or Scandal, you can get an idea of the
type of story the RED TAPE books are. Of course, it’s all fiction. The FLC Case
Files series is about a secret organization in the White House that uses
coercion, blackmail and sex scandals to fight terrorism and manipulate domestic
and foreign policy. I hope you’ll check this story out. And I’d love to hear
your feedback—good and bad. Both Red Tape, Book 1,
and Red Tape Protector, Book 2 are
stand-alone books, but to get the full effect of the series and story, it’s
best to read both. Keep watch for Red
Tape Betrayal, Book 3 coming soon!
I’m a huge fan of thriller movies, especially spy-type stories.
Red Tape Protector was also inspired by
one movie Point of No Return with
Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel, and Anne Bancroft. If you haven’t
seen it check it out. There are some parallels if you’re familiar with the
movie.
Blurb for
Red Tape Protector: When Alana MacKenna, a member of a top-secret White House society, makes
a critical mistake, she’s not fired, she’s given a new identity and
assignment—to be elaborately trained as an undercover security agent and
assassin. Sexy, Black-ops agent Jag Denison must prepare her for the dangerous
mission, and falling in love will only complicate their hit jobs. Sometimes you
can’t run away…from love or danger…
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Bio: New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Kathy Kulig is a writer, a science geek, a part time health food nut, an occasional cat sitter, and an adventure movie junkie. She lives in a 100-year-old Victorian house with her amazingly support hubby who is also a geek and shares her love of traveling. Kathy writes sexy paranormal, contemporary and suspense. Her books can be dark and edgy, passionate and erotically-charged, but there’s always a steamy romance and a happy ending.
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