A MAN CALLED NIKO
Bogota, Columbia
Charles Harvey clocked into his job as the night clerk at the Hotel Grande in Bogota. his brother and you might know him by a different name. As a CIA agent, he could not go by his real name, although Charles Harvey was not the name that he had been given at the hospital where he was born. In fact, he did not know what that name was. He had been given a different name than the one he was born with by his adoptive parents. He was then given the name of Charles Harvey by the CIA when he had retired from
the military and joined that organization as a clandestine agent. It was not the name that he had used while deployed as a special forces soldier by the military. He could not reveal that name to anyone, even his closest relative; that relative being his brother. His brother only knew him now by the code name that the two men had invented to identify him: Niko. No last name, or perhaps, no first name. The word for three trees growing together in the Japanese language fit him perfectly, because he had gone by three names in his life. The CIA adopted this as his codename after hearing his life story.
Niko had thought up the idea of presenting himself as a gay man in the military when he had joined. This identity earned him privacy, which he craved, although it was not exactly the truth. The honest truth was that Charles Harvey did not identify (sexually) as gay or straight. Nor did he think of himself as
transexual or metrosexual. He had little interest in the opposite gender, sexually, and even less interest in his own gender in that matter. He just wanted his privacy.
The agent suspected that his overbearing mother, who was in her forties when he was born, may have contributed to this. She and her husband had wanted a baby so badly that each one of the couple spoiled their youngest child unimaginably. When Niko’s father died, his only brother was a teenager. Teenagers do not want to have affection poured on them by their maternal parent, especially if the teen is a boy. So Niko’s mother poured all of the love and affection that she had for her entire family onto her youngest child. Her husband was gone, and her oldest child was a distant teenager. It made the young lad feel suffocated. He cherished his privacy as an adult as a result of his mother’s extreme affection. Since the gay man identity had worked well for him in the Army, Charles decided to keep that identity when he joined the CIA. If anyone recognized him from his Army Ranger days, he or she would assume Niko to be gay. that protected his privacy, since he would pretend that no man would ever be good enough to earn his affection. He was better able to protect those who were under his watch by protecting his privacy. That is why it had seemed strange to those who knew a little about the desk clerk that he would invite another man to live in his house, apartment, or duplex. No one was exactly sure
where he lived. Niko liked it that way. Niko had his reasons for asking the American to move into his clandestine abode. One reason was that he was sure that the young American would not turn to a same-sex relationship. The American had followed a woman all the way from New York City to Bogota. He was assuredly NOT gay. He also had elite computer skills. Skills that Niko could use to his advantage. However, the young American had
turned the tables and used Niko’s information to HIS advantage. The man must be dealt with. BUT, the young American had fled to Texas when he had hacked Niko’s computer and learned of his plan. Niko had a more immediate threat at the moment, though. He must first deal with the threat of one man bent on world domination who had just, by chance, landed in Niko’s territory. Little did Charles Harvey know that he would be the liaison that would bring these two men together.
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