BROTHERHOOD SPY No. 7

They do not want you to read what I have written in this book. It was first sent to a publisher (that I will not name) in the year 1977.
After three months of inquiries into the status of the manuscript, I received a small box shipped to me through the U.S. mail. Inside the box was the manuscript I'd sent to the publisher, with a note that read,
"We are unable to publish your novel."
Just that one line, and no explanation as to why.
Under the note was the manuscript. It had been put through a pulp paper shredder—the kind used to shred top-secret government documents . . .
Why you may ask, would they want to stop you from reading my story? They say it's because it tells too many secrets and that I'm a spy … a spy for the Brotherhood!
Now you can follow my story from my birth in the Midwestern city of St. Louis, Missouri, to the gang-infested streets of Chicago, Illinois, and into the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.
But what comes after, you will not believe . . .
—Billy E. Ware
Brotherhood Spy No. 7