The BIG PICTURE - A Camera, A Young Woman, An Uncompromising Ethic

Literature & Fiction

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Synopsis

Freyja is a young. ambitious photographer. By chance she takes pictures of demonstration that turns deadly. Powerful people, try to to suppress her photos with threats and bribes but she perseveres. People close to her are compromised. Freyja is not. The pictures influence the outcome of an election but things don’t change. Freyja leaves the country on assignment to photograph the Mexican drug war. Her lover is murdered by the cartels. She discovers that the cartels have a connection back home. Freyja returns home to expose the corruption. Again her camera plays a significant role. She succeeds with the help of friends she’d previously written off. Freyja realizes not everything is black and white, and how you view the big picture depends entirely on your perspective.

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Rod Raglin is a journalist, photographer and keen environmentalist living on the west coast of Canada. He’s the author of thirteen self-published novels, a collection of short stories and two plays. To read excerpts of his work visit his Amazon author page at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B003DS6LEU
His short fiction and poetry frequently appear in online publications. For links to short stories and poems accepted and published individually or in an anthology most of which are free to read, visit https://revuecommunitynews.com/rod-raglin-author
He blogs about ‘Writing – the experience’ at http://rodraglin.wordpress.com/
Follow him on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/rodraglin and on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013287676486

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A likeable villian

How do you make your villians real? I give them a wife, a career, a bad back and issues like forced retirement. I try to make them sympathetic. I want my reader to think "under the same circumstances I can understand someone making that decision, taking that action". Their motivation for doing something evil or corrupt has to be motivated and not in a clichéd way. Bob and Stephanie serve political masters that want results - not excuses. By whatever means necessary is implied if not actually stated, just don't let it come back and bite them.

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The BIG PICTURE - A Camera, A Young Woman, An Uncompromising Ethic

His wife hated him being called out in the middle of the night. Marlene thought this was all over when he’d retired as Chief of the Vancouver Police Department. She told him not to take this on, but retirement had weighed heavy. He’d done the obligatory Alaska cruise and frankly he didn’t need, nor did he want to slow down. Sure he had a bit of a gut and wouldn’t win any foot chases but he was healthy and more importantly still felt involved, intellectually and professionally.

Truth was, and it was a deep dark one, he couldn’t have turned it down if he wanted to. He owed people – important people, dangerous people. When they asked, you didn’t say no.

The BIG PICTURE - A Camera, A Young Woman, An Uncompromising Ethic

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Rod Raglin

The BIG PICTURE - A Camera, A Young Woman, An Uncompromising Ethic

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Author Biography

Author Insight

A likeable villian

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The BIG PICTURE - A Camera, A Young Woman, An Uncompromising Ethic

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