The Fifth Profession is a 1990 novel by David Morrell. It features the characters Savage and Akira, executive protectors - "no mere bodyguard[s] but... state-of-the-art defender[s]", an occupation also known as the "fifth profession". Savage and Akira meet - seemingly for the first time - by Savage being dispatched by a Joyce Stone to liberate her sister, Rachel, whom Akira is guarding against that eventuality.

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  • The Fifth Profession is a 1990 novel by David Morrell. It features the characters Savage and Akira, executive protectors - "no mere bodyguard[s] but... state-of-the-art defender[s]", an occupation also known as the "fifth profession". Savage and Akira meet - seemingly for the first time - by Savage being dispatched by a Joyce Stone to liberate her sister, Rachel, whom Akira is guarding against that eventuality. Their brief clash triggers off memories of a previous meeting, where each believed he saw the other die in the course of a prior mission of protection together; memories that are quite obviously false, but which both believe to be entirely real. The two join together to uncover a string of other falsified memories, taking Rachel Stone with them - thus fulfilling both protectors' missions; Savage's to retrieve her, and Akira's to protect her. This is a phenomenon that Savage identifies as "jamais vu", a term used to describe any familiar situation which is not recognized by the observer. It is often described as the opposite of déjà vu. In the book, the occurrence of this phenomenon is explained by the discovery of evidence of brain surgery performed on both men, entailing a scarring of the temporal lobe of the brain, or the amygdala hippocampal area by an electrode inserted through the skull - a process similar to that used to treat epilepsy - while both men were subjected to a series of hypnosis and dramatic re-enactments of the false memories.. The process served to 'delete' Savage's and Akira's memories, and supplant them with falsified ones.
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  • The Fifth Profession is a 1990 novel by David Morrell. It features the characters Savage and Akira, executive protectors - "no mere bodyguard[s] but... state-of-the-art defender[s]", an occupation also known as the "fifth profession". Savage and Akira meet - seemingly for the first time - by Savage being dispatched by a Joyce Stone to liberate her sister, Rachel, whom Akira is guarding against that eventuality.
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  • Fifth Profession
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