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Smokescreen
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Complete, First published Jan 11, 2020
"People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most." 
― Shannon L. Alder 

A rewrite of 'Agent Benjamin Ripley'. One would expect that after receiving an award from the president himself and defeating a syndicate before the age of 16, he would be the jewel of the CIA. Many had fallen into that fatal trap, but Ben is smarter. He knows that there was no purpose in being known for being unknown. Everyone is out for themselves, simpering as they pretend otherwise. Therefore, Benjamin Ripley knows that if he even exposes a bit of vulnerable skin, he will be eaten alive. So he keeps his head down, until he is drawn into the world of espionage by the girl who broke him years before and a case that is more than it seems.
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34 parts Complete

Five years ago, Ben Ripley vanished during a covert Arctic mission gone wrong. The world - and Spy School - believed he was dead. Everyone except Erica Hale. Despite the evidence, Erica never accepted Ben's death. Her instincts - and her heart - told her he was still out there. She was right. After being ambushed and kidnapped by a secret coalition of their old enemies, Ben managed to escape - wounded, alone, and forced to disappear. Weeks later, through an encrypted channel known only to the two of them, Ben reached out to Erica one last time. He told her the truth: the ambush had been a setup to remove him from the picture, paving the way for a new global operation years in the making. To stop it, Ben would have to vanish completely. With Erica's reluctant blessing, Ben fled across the world to Japan, where he assumed a new identity with the help of Jessica Shang, an unlikely ally who gave him shelter and a cover life. Hidden from every intelligence network, Ben was soon drawn into the shadows - recruited by a secret organization that trained him to become one of the most skilled covert operatives alive. Five years later, Ben Ripley is no longer the awkward kid who tripped through Spy School missions. He's taller, colder, fluent in six languages, and scarred inside and out - a master of survival shaped by silence and regret. But when he discovers that the same organization that hunted him now has its sights set on Erica Hale, Ben must step out of the shadows and face his past. Because some missions never end. And some connections can't be erased - no matter how long you've been gone.