NOC5: Life in ‘Overcover’ (Over and Out)*
The level of combined naivety, ignorance, hypocrisy and plain dumbness that is spoon-fed to the people of today needs deconstructing by an actual on-site insider. I will attempt to undertake this in my fifth and last book of The NOC Series. It will be published in 2027 warts and all.
My only agenda is to educate and fill in the gaps that the average person on the street with a half a brain must have figured out that the government in the country they reside in isn’t exactly informing us all in full. In bits ‘n’ pieces, occasionally yes, but never is the whole picture presented on quite a few subjects, especially those with more secretive content.
I should add that that I was again recalled to active duty because the British national defence mechanisms are so severely depleted that they are calling back experienced older intelligence officers way past their prime, like me, and I did so commit for two days a week between February 2022 to February 2025. In between those times I also undertook travel to Belgium and Germany (for untold NATO meetings), Poland (three times), Kaliningrad (twice), Ukraine (twice), Russia (twice), Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Moldova and Serbia for two or three nights each and once up to 10 days away hectically taking in five countries. I donated my salary anonymously to local charities where I live to not screw up my pension but did claim expenses.
During this time, obviously I had a unique close-up to a lot of material for this upcoming much delayed (by me) book, which will feature chapters mostly about my life in ‘overcover’ (intel slang for retirement).
Most of the writing will variously present a different version of what the compliant international media where you live is copying verbatim from press releases and news feeds of a so-called ‘official narrative’ furnished by those in power from both the extreme left to the extreme right. In general, I am neither of those ends politically…I’m more what is known as realpolitik (I describe it as being practical for the current time of need).
I can assure you the long-ish wait for this overdue issue will not disappoint you. The title has been revised and the red book cover is still being designed (the copy seen here is a mock).
Thank you for your patience.- Nicholas Anderson
Author of NOC5: Life in ‘Overcover’ (Over and Out)*
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-7329661-8-5
eBook ISBN: 978-1-7329661-9-2
Published in 2027
Note: The UK Ministry of Defence has deemed the Secret Intelligence Service/MI6 P (for Production) intelligence officer who wrote the contents of this book cannot have his career file declassified for public consumption until February 2075. Therefore until then for legal reasons this book has been categorized fiction.
The NOC Trilogy Timeline:
About the paperbacks and eBooks in The NOC Trilogy series
The original manuscript submitted for clearance by a British literary agent, who was unauthorised to do so, at an unknown date had more than half its content redacted and was banned. The title appeared in a top 100 banned book list that itself was later banned in 1998.
The re-edited printed book, NOC - Non-Official Cover: British Secret Operations (paperback ISBN: 978-1-7329661-0-9 / eBook ISBN: 978-1-7329661-1-6) by Nicholas Anderson, was first published worldwide by the Perseus-distributed (now Two Rivers Distribution) Enigma Books' spy-oriented imprint in July 2009. Due to the rapid onset of eBook downloads globally, the publisher and author amicably agreed to terminate their agreement with the original edition going out of print in June 2011.
The exclusive electronic download service with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select commenced in July 2011 reflecting both the promising advancement of eBooks and the stark decline of traditional paper books, at the time, within the same industry.
That same year the title won the first ever Global eBook Award for Historical Literature Fiction. Later, the author's first book also reached number one in the Australian digital charts for the same genre.
Coming around a full circle, due to readying the release of the trilogy's second instalment, NOC Twice: More UK Non-Official Cover Operations (paperback ISBN: 978-1-7329661-2-3 / eBook ISBN: 978-1-7329661-3-0), in both eBook and paperback, a decision was made to make the first book available again in printed form from KDP's print-on-demand division, Createspace. Both in tandem were re-released and published in April 2014.
The third and final installment, NOC Three Times: Knock-On Effect (Last of the Trilogy) (paperback ISBN: 978-1-7329661-4-7 / eBook ISBN: 978-1-7329661-5-4), was published in all markets and formats in May 2016. Note: the Chilcot Inquiry, the investigation that commenced in 2009 into how the illegal Iraqi War was instigated, was released to the British public on 6 July 2016. Such government reports' only look above a certain line, while Anderson's book addresses what went on below it. At this stage the books became known as The NOC Trilogy.
The agreement with Amazon/KDP/Createspace was terminated in November 2018 and migrated to Ingram and their partners worldwide for printed books and Kobo and their global partners for eBooks.
Due to the success of the trio of titles in The NOC Trilogy, a fourth book NOC4: Addendum (paperback ISBN: 978-1-7329661-6-1 / eBook ISBN: 978-1-7329661-7-8), features stories that did not get included in the earlier publications. The title was published on 7 January 2019.
To be announced for publication in 2027 is the fifth and final version entitled NOC5: Life in ‘Overcover’ (Over and Out) (paperback ISBN: 978-1-7329661-8-5 / eBook ISBN: 978-1-7329661-9-2), mostly features intelligence-related stories that were accepted after retirement (known as overcover).
Note: All Nicholas Anderson's writings are purposefully faction (literary works that present factual contents in the form of a fictional novel) in order to circumvent legal restrictions on the most secret of former secret intelligence officers.
G. Forth - November 5, 2013
“The truth about spy craft; If you can handle it.”
compass2k - August 11, 2014