Opal was still panting, still gasping, still feeling the racing of her heart. Yet how could she gasp in an energy body that needed no air? How could she feel the racing of a heart that was safely tucked inside her chest nearly four thousand miles away? Farrakhan and the Skull were gone too. The old man who’d done this to her had told her they were leaving her to consider her position, but she knew they had left her purely to increase her fear. It was impossible to work for MI6 without picking up some information about torture techniques—all spies got the basic schooling. Despite what many people believed, pain was not the most effective way to extract accurate information: the best tool was fear of pain. An agent subjected to intense, relentless pain would say anything—anything—to make it stop, would tell his torturers what he thought they wanted to hear, but would not necessarily tell the truth. If the pain went on too long, he would pass out. If he was forced to remain conscious—and there were drugs that would do that trick—he would eventually go mad.
What do You think about The Shadow Project (2010)?
