Hiring Company (Day)

## Summary

The Hiring Company is a placeholder name for the organization that hires Eli to look for suspicious evidence in the book *Day.*

They are employed by the US government to hire people to find nuclear warheads or related elements in places across the United States.

Eli is hired by a worker named Tam. Tam is one of four individuals who oversee the affairs of the war in the United States. There are four correspondents who work in Russia, and one for each of these that report to them from the US. Those in Russia are named after the Russian words for who, what, when, and where. And those in the USA are named after the the Russian words for them, that, then, and there. Tam, therefore is the Russian word for "there."

However, Tam is the only correspondent who is a non combative field agent. The other three US based agents are trained assassins and report to an individual in Russia. ￼

## Plot Concept

*[possible]*

*[author note]*

In order to add more meat to the plot of *Day,* I may make it so that the three assassins are employed to take out Eli. Eli doesn't have any fighting experience, nor is he very able to defend himself besides using a gun. I plan to make Eli able to use his time jumping ability pretty well at this point, so when any of the assassins try to come up on him, he will be able to in fact greatly overstep them. This could start with Eli seeing a vision of someone coming to attack him, or less direct by giving him a few visions that show that a mysterious person will come into his life, and then he puts the details together to realize that these are people trying to kill him. From this, he would decide to get his family away from him until he can deal with the issue.

So at this point he needs to be comfortable with the fact that he has some special ability. Otherwise the whole thing will be overwhelming. Since he's being attacked, I think the logical thing to make Eli do would be to tell someone and get help from someone, specifically by providing them with physical evidence--say someone from law enforcement. Maybe then, these law enforcement agents could provide enough protection to show that although Eli can't fight, he used his ability to protect himself and others.

Another idea is that Eli could get wrapped in an assassination scenario where he doesn't actually have a good understanding of his ability, and he tries to use it to escape some of the assassins. In this situation, Eli would learn how to use his ability better, but it would be a crazy scenario for the reader to follow because Eli's tripping over himself even as his life is in danger.

However, instead of these people being assassins, it makes more sense that they're trying to capture Eli because he'd be a useful asset to understand. Maybe when Eli is captured by the Russians in the plot, it's instead where he gets captured by these people, and they take him back to their base for study. Then, maybe they're able to replicate the time jumping thing to a lesser extent, giving a bigger threat to Eli. I think it would be good for Eli to use his natural skills: marketing, talking to people, networking, working hard--to solve the issues in his first book. So the threat needs to be small enough to fit that mold.

I like the idea of the assassins being as distinct as their code names, maybe giving them special masks each and a special fighting style. That's not as realistic, but it's a cool touch.