This is the opening section of an e-novel of one woman's adventure and journey to the farthest and most erotic corners of the world. Michele is a young and unfulfilled American housewife who is swept up in the romance and eroticism of Paris by a man who is not quite as he appears.
Kincaid is an elite undercover operative of one of France's most secretive of spy agencies who is tasked by his agency and sent on a never ending mission to steal as much information as he can from the world's leading technological companies, by all possible means.
In this first book, La Femme Michele- Paris Noir, we are witnesses in seeing how the young and beautiful Michele Hudson is sexually liberated from her stifled marriage, seduced by the new man who unleashes her wild erotic side, all of which leads her becoming a trained operative of Kincaid's, known simply by her French code name "La Femme."
The setting for this opening tale of sex, intrigue, decadence, adventure, romance, and love is the dark and noir high-tech world of Paris during the second decade of the 21st Century.
It was a warm sunny day as Kincaid sat at his computer at the café overlooking the same French naval yard where he had first left for the shores to fight for his homeland during the Persian Gulf War, nearly 30 years prior. The memories of that time were short lived though as he sat at the café alone that Sunday afternoon, and watched the new generation of stealth corvettes head out to join the German navy in their stand off with the Americans of the shores of Germania, the newly formed Nazi dictatorship in what was the southwest African nation of Namibia. Despite the looming threat of war between the former NATO allies, Kincaid's mind was buried in the past, as he surfed the wireless Internet, via a wi-fi connection on his old Sony Vaio, and thought of his former lover Hiroko, the woman, just a few years prior, off the shores of Bermuda, he had been forced to sacrifice deep below the ocean surface.
After he entered the CyberNation forum that was devoted to the subject of French culture, he browsed around the recent posts, using his online alias of 'theglobalsoul', he spotted a message from a user with the handle of 'la femme michele', who introduced herself to the group and gave as much of a life story as one can give in four sentences. According to Michele's post, she was a 25-year-old housewife living with her husband of seven years in the suburbs of Chicago, where her husband worked as the chief computer scientist at Motorola's military technology division. Michele said that she was hopefully going to visit Paris someday, with her mother or a friend, since her husband had a terrible phobia of flying, and that she hoped a real Parisian could tell her more about the City of Lights.
Had Kincaid not been at that exact spot in Marseilles at that particular moment in time, and in the mood he was in, he would have never even had entered the forum nor seen the young woman's introductory post. Had it not been for the fact that she had claimed that her husband was a high level employee at Motorola, he would have never considered answering the American woman's query, but as fate would have it, he did. For you see, Kincaid had recently been tasked, by his agency, with exploring the vulnerability of American and Japanese companies with significant military technology contracts, of which Motorola was on the top of a very short list. As he sipped his Heineken, and watched as the aircraft carrier, Napoleon, slipped out of the bay onward to the ensuing confrontation off the shores of Walvis Bay, Kincaid began to think of how to reply, all the while studying the supple body of the young dark haired Japanese waitress, whom he thought could have easily passed for Ukiko's sister. Upon the departure of the waitress, Kincaid began to type:
"Madame Michele,
Please all me to introduce myself my name is Deckard Gregoire Kincaid, but my friends simply call me Kincaid and I live and work in Paris. I am a civil servant and single. I would love to chat with you and tell you more about my fair city.
Sincerely, D.G. Kincaid"
From that letter on Kincaid and Michele exchanged e-mail and chatted, via instant messaging, at least once or twice a week, but as time went on, and they each began to reveal more of themselves, the conversations and subjects went from being safe, to those that one can only share with a stranger. Their conversations often went on for hours as they described in detail their deepest and darkest fantasies, as well as their own dirty secrets. As they chatted and e-mailed Michele became more and more infatuated with the thought and fantasy of going to Paris, taking a lover, and leaving what she felt was a boring existence that had little of the adventure and passion she craved or had been promised by her husband, Barry, on the night they were engaged.
For Michele, her world and her future had changed completely, when, on a Sunday morning, she saw in her e-mail box an attachment that simply was titled, "kincaid.jpg," with a return address of theglobalsoul@cybernation.fr. As Michele studied the image, she could not help but say to herself, "Is this picture really him? It couldn't be, could it?" For, as Michele looked into the hauntingly familiar eyes of the man who appeared to be an older version of her lost soul mate, the one who broke her heart at the age of 19, she felt in her heart the burning ember of sexual inhibition that she had long ago thought that she would never feel, or want to experience, again...