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 Sekret is a 2014 novel by Lindsay Smith. It follows Yulia Chernina, a Soviet teenager with psychic abilities, as she's unwillingly recruited into spying for the USSR. She meets a whole team of similarly gifted teenagers and has to learn to control her new abilities, navigate State Sec's literal thought policing, succeed in her new career as a spy while facing off against an opponent so powerful she can't look directly at him, deal with revelations about her family history and the nature of her abilities, and handle dating, alpha bitches, and general petty teenage drama in her circle of "coworkers."Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The story is continued in Skandal (2015), which shows the state of psychic spying on the other side of the Cold War.
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 Bad Powers, Good People: Nice Guy Valentin is a scrubber, capable of making people do whatever he wants. Unlike the ones working for the villains, the worst he ever actually does with it is a Charm Person glamour when he needs to get into a building. Still, it’s a relief for him at the end of Skandal when he loses his powers. The ending of Sekret reveals that that American scrubber who was too powerful to even look at, who kept showing up wherever their team deployed and ruining everything, is actually Yulia’s father Andrei. There’s some doubt over whether this trope applies during Skandal as he’s acting like a Jerkass and abusing his powers left and right, and at one point Yulia even wonders whether he’s the mole. It eventually turns out he really is a good guy who’s in a self-destructive spiral after damaging his own brain to escape, and he starts to get it together toward the end of the book.
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 Ambiguous Disorder: It’s fairly clear from the narrative that Zhenya has what we would now recognize as some form of autism, but due to the setting, no one has or uses that term for it. Mercifully, the little we see isn’t the Hollywood kind.
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 The ending of Sekret reveals that that American scrubber who was too powerful to even look at, who kept showing up wherever their team deployed and ruining everything, is actually Yulia’s father Andrei. There’s some doubt over whether this trope applies during Skandal as he’s acting like a Jerkass and abusing his powers left and right, and at one point Yulia even wonders whether he’s the mole. It eventually turns out he really is a good guy who’s in a self-destructive spiral after damaging his own brain to escape, and he starts to get it together toward the end of the book.
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