When a vindictive cyber-terrorist steals nuclear activation codes, a distrusting special agent must use an experimental machine to enter his mind and retrieve them before he instigates a global conflict.

Thanks again for your help. That is why I have added the ‘Untrusting’ element, as someone who spends his time learning the secrets and hidden lives of others is going to struggle with his own personal relationships and never have that deep connection with someone as he’ll always be searching for what is under the surface. Something that perhaps with our partners we all wish we could look inside and see what is ticking, but from time to time you have to learn to trust, which is something my character will learn, and in doing so will develop a connection.

It does, it helps a great deal. So, really need to nail a description for my MC, and tie that to the story. So on the surface it is about a team trying to obtain codes to stop a potential war, but underneath – we have the characters inner journey, which could be one of redemption to greed to discovering faith, but whatever I choose I must tie it to the story.

Awesome. It is really hard to write these…as you probably know… so to even get one person saying they really like it is fantastic.

I like the first two points, and I understand the 3rd point about making the stakes personal, but unsure if I want to give him a wife and child, merely as I have a potential idea for a love interest. So, need to work out how to increase the stakes so maybe I need to think more along the lines of Indiana Jones or Star Wars where there isn’t a family per se, but the threat is at a high level…e.g. Nazis win the war if they get the Arc or the Rebel Alliance is destroyed if the plans of the Death Star fall into the wrong hands.