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The Head Dragon Series' Synopsis & Analysis
Me Boy, Third Book In The Head Dragon Series, tells Houri Ranshoff’s story as she moves through her career as a beautiful, but deadly deep cover Mossad agent and brilliant scientist. Houri, believing that John Mischler is dead, begins college and life as a beautiful, but deadly Mossad agent. While attending Oxford, Houri receives her first assignment, which is to terminate an Iranian nuclear scientist while providing services as a prostitute. By way of a family reunion, Houri learns that John is living in China with Pui Chu Dong, the Triads Head Dragon and the woman who saved his life. Houri visits Pui Chu and John to seek their advice. Pui Chu accepts Houri as a daughter. She realizes that Houri is not ready for her assignment and hands Houri over to her trusted lieutenants. They train Houri in the art of whoring and survival. Houri returns to England where she prosecutes her assignment with self-confidence born out of extreme adversity. Houri’s beauty, intelligence, and personality attract international players during her PhD program at Cambridge. They admire and like her and are willing to see her die for their causes. Houri’s successful assignments in Russia and North Korea instill an even great willingness to send her into harm’s way. She retires from the spy trade after her mission in support of a military strike on Iran leaves her brutalized and accepts a Cambridge professorship in physics.
Authors A.I.'s Marlowe Analysis
Overview - Me Boy is an ambitious international Spy Thriller that attempts to weave together complex geopolitical machinations with personal character development across multiple countries and timeframes.
Premise / Elevator Pitch - A brilliant Israeli nuclear scientist becomes entangled in a web of international espionage when she must infiltrate Iran's nuclear program while navigating dangerous relationships with intelligence agencies from multiple countries and confronting her traumatic past.
Potential Readers - Me Boy's target audience are adult readers who enjoy detailed espionage fiction with strong female protagonists and intricate plotting.
Archetype - Me Boy is most similar to The Quest story archetype.
Genere & Story Type - Me Boy is primarily a Spy Thriller with strong elements of International Political Intrigue. The story also contains elements of the following:
Word Count - Me Boy contains about 99,799 words. While there are no hard-and-fast rules about minimum and maximum story lengths, there are industry traditions and reader expectations. Here’s a quick reference for typical word counts by genre:
For genre-bending works, the word count should typically align with the genre that has the higher range (e.g., romantic fantasy would follow fantasy’s 80,000-120,000 words). In some cases, indie authors choose to serialize a story — say, three fantasy novels of 40,000 words instead of one novel of 120,000 words.
Trigger Warnings - Me Boy contains graphic violence and torture, sexual assault, references to child sexual abuse, human trafficking, graphic descriptions of physical and psychological torture, detailed violence against women, references to genocide and mass casualties from terrorist attacks, and explicit sexual content including non-consensual situations. The story also contains detailed descriptions of nuclear terrorism and mass destruction that some readers may find disturbing, as well as references to systematic oppression and abuse of children.