Bret Lee, is an unassuming middle-aged American. Handsome, average height and build, he could very well be your friendly next door neighbor who’s a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Maryland. You’d never know it, but he’s also a part-time spy of sorts. He’s no 007, but thanks to his superior intellect and the few CIA skills he acquired, Bret and his lovely American-born Chinese wife, Chu-lin, have together been infrequently persuaded to undertake critical, though unofficial, secret assignments. Bret is fluent in Spanish and able to understand Mandarin Chinese.
Bret and Chu have four children, three already college graduates and the fourth a year away from graduation.
Having an engineering degree from Cornell, Bret fulfilled his military service as an army officer working at the Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Md. He then continued with the labs as a civilian until his retirement at age 44. Finding a stateside job as a chemical engineer in the difficult employment environment of 2010 eventually led him to an overseas opportunity offered by an old friend. It was a high-paying job with a Venezuelan fertilizer company. There was one proviso. He had to become a spy, his first unofficial, secret assignment.
Another inadvertent spy assignment was initiated when Bret was innocently traveling with Chu on pleasure through China and was kidnapped by a gang of thugs intent on selling an American for cash. He ultimately ended up in an ISIS jail awaiting either resale for ten million dollars or decapitation. Bret managed to escape and begin a Mideastern adventure of espionage on behalf of America.
In the course of his diverse spy assignments, Bret has interfaced with the former president of Venezuela, the current president of Syria, and the prime minister of Kurdistan. His travels have taken him through Washington, Caracas, Damascus, Baghdad, Irbil, Paris, Monte Carlo, Macao, Amman, and Klerksdorp. He is currently home in Adelphi, MD, recovering from wounds incurred during his most recent espionage assignment within a jungle of the Central African Republic.
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