The Breaking of Jill Valira

This is not an adaptation of but is inspired by my unsold screenplay; the breaking of Jill Valira chronicles the 4 years an intelligence agent spent as the brainwashed assassin of a cult leader. The novel explores the back story not fully revealed in the screenplay, the ending of the novel being the opening scene of the screenplay. Jill Valira an experienced infiltrator, is sent into yet another cult, only to find to her horror the cult leader is a presumed dead psychiatrist. An expert in the human mind, using a cult for cover while developing a perfection on standard brainwashing techniques, Jill playing her role a little too well, becomes his next candidate for the experimental processes...what follows is an example of the human mind at it's best, and worst.