The Brethren ( Level 5) Book

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This story was interesting. Two different events not seem unassociated, but they were linked when the three Brethren found out that Al was Lake who was the presidential candidate. They threatened to free them and 2 million dollars each, or they would reveal his secret. Finally, they got what they wanted. After reading this story, the most surprising part was people were so dark no matter their desires were big or small. For example, the three Brethren wanted to be rich so they swindled money through a fake advertisement about a young gay who needed a close friend attracted rich guys who did not want their family know they were guy. In addition, in order to help Lake to run for president, CIA ignored the terrorist attack to the Embassy in Cairo. It was hard to believe CIA chose to sacrifice people's life in order to get more budgets to protect America. To protect American was an important mission, but they could not also sacrifice people's lives so easily. This story let me think if people are so selfish and so dark because every character in the story almost had their own purpose no matter if the reason was reasonable or not. However, I still wanted to trust that people are kind originally.