Soul Identity

by: Dennis Batchelder

Blurb: You can’t take it with you…but what if you could?

Most people believe their souls outlive their bodies. Most people would find an organization that tracks their souls into the future and passes on their banked money and memories compelling.

Scott Waverly isn’t like most people. He spends his days finding and fixing computer security holes. And Scott is skeptical of his new client’s claim that they have been calculating and tracking soul identities for almost twenty-six hundred years.

Are they running a freaky cult? Or a sophisticated con job?

Scott needs to save Soul Identity from an insider attack. Along the way, he discovers the importance of the bridges connecting people’s lives.

Review: When a person enters an airport security area wearing only a bathing suit and flip flops, everyone’s curiosity is peaked.  When that man is Scott Waverly, the world’s best security consultant, that curiosity turns to absolute distrust and suspicion.

His goal is to smuggle a weapon, bomb or other illegal device past security.  Success means his reputation is upheld.  Failure means his consulting efforts have paid off.  In either case he wins.

Accustomed to meeting a variety of people in his type of work, Scott was taken off guard by Robert, the delivery man.

The package delivered to Scott included something called a Soul Identity Reader.  The instructions said he had to place the lens in front of his eyes, one at a time and press the button.  If it worked the device would blink green for the right eye and yellow for the left.  What is this device and what is a Soul Identity?

Who was Archibald Morgan and why did he want to verify Scott’s soul identity?

Scott was not only the worlds best security consultant, he was the best computer security hack as well.  His talents provided many a company the tools necessary to close back doors and loop holes left open in their software and internet connections.  Scott was worth his fees.

“Most of our business comes right after our clients discover somebody has stolen their customers, money, ideas, or intellectual property. They call us to protect them from further losses; they are proof that people really do love to fix barn doors after their horses are gone.  Soul Identity hadn’t yet told us what had been taken, but that was typical for our clients. Nobody wants to advertise their losses.”

What would Soul Identity want with pictures of Waverly’s eyes.  And what would they do once they find out the images of the eyes he captured were not his?

A person’s irises are as unique as his fingerprints. From a distance the iris looks brown or black or blue, but up close it contains many distinct shapes and colors. These change as you grow, but once you become an adult, they settle down and remain the same.

The story is told from Scott’s point of view.  He relates the story from a suspicious security consultant doing his due diligence.  I was hooked from the first words in the Prologue.

You can’t take it with you… but what if you could? Most people believe their souls outlive their bodies. Most people would find an organization that tracks their souls into the future and passes on their banked money and memories compelling. Scott Waverly isn’t like most people.

Reading through the chapters, I found myself immersed in the web of intrigue spun by the author to keep me from gathering too much information and too many good leads.  His trails led to dead ends, only to cause me, the reader, to want to find another way out of the web.

Scott is skeptical of his new client’s claim that they have been calculating and tracking soul identities for almost twenty-six hundred years. Are they running a freaky cult? Or a sophisticated con job? Scott needs to save Soul Identity from an insider attack. Along the way, he discovers the importance of the bridges connecting people’s lives.

Once finished, I was fatigued as if I ran a marathon.  Batchelder did his job well.