Three Lives Book

For most of us, one life is enough. Imagine having three. Nicholas Gambit did. One man, three very different reasons for being.

Almost graduated from University and soon to leave a Kansas City ghetto he can t wait to get away from, Nicholas is drawn into a conflict he wants no part of. His world crashing down around him, surrounded by violence, he learns he has some very special talents. Even with those talents, he finds he can t protect everyone and when the nightmare is finally over, he is consumed. He is devoid of purpose, inconsolable, lost.

Upon observing how Nicholas conducts himself, and what he is capable of, agent John Wilkes devises a new purpose for him. He soon invites his protege to enlist in a program few know exists. Too emotionally drained to see that it is a mistake, Nicholas allows himself to be secreted away into a life that he thinks will give his existence meaning and pit him against those who place themselves above the law. Instead, he finds himself at war with his own principles – fearful he will become the enemy he has sworn to fight.

In the course of the transformation from artless college student to inconceivably skilled government operative, Nicholas finds love where it is forbidden, is made into a cold blooded murderer, and ultimately seeks out redemption by allowing another a chance to rediscover her own humanity.

The story is related to us from the perspective of Nicholas as a sixty-four year old man, forty years in the future. His memories are for us, what would be near present day events. He s seldom proud of the things he s done. This makes for an intricate relationship to the story as he recounts it, considering he is now a preacher in his third life and ministers to others to never commit the sins he has committed in his own clandestine presence on earth.