The Courier
Copyright 2008 by EC
EC's Erotic Fiction - /~caligula97030/

(warnings: erotic discipline, sex between adults, medical fetish, public nudity, 
harsh police interrogation, rape, public humiliation)


Introduction and thoughts about the novel

“The Courier” is my fifth book, which I began after more than a year of taking 
a break from writing. The story of Maria Elena Rodriguez-Torres had its 
origins in a Poser picture series I did shortly after finishing “The Pledge 
Mistress” during the summer of 2007. I was thinking of expanding the 
captions of that series into a novel, but at that time I was left mentally 
exhausted after finishing my previous novel “The Pledge Mistress”. The story 
was further delayed by several important changes in my personal life, which 
distracted my attention from writing another novel. I feel that delay was 
fortunate, however, because it allowed me to start fresh with a new project 
without the mental exhaustion that I felt after finishing “The Pledge Mistress”.

“The Courier” introduces a new main character, 19-year-old Maria Elena 
Rodriguez-Torres. Unlike my previous characters, who are all either from the 
US or my fictional country of Danubia, Maria Elena comes from another 
country that exists in real life, Colombia. Lured by the promise of quick 
money and an escape out of her unpleasant life in South America, Maria Elena 
becomes a courier for a cocaine trafficking group. The story begins with her 
swallowing a kilogram of cocaine, with the expectation that she can take it to 
Europe, expel it, and turn it over to her trafficking group. With the money she 
expects to be paid, she hopes to start a new life in Spain. Her plans go horribly 
awry when her flight is diverted to Danubia and she ends up as a prisoner in 
the hands of the Danubian government.

In spite of the fact that “The Courier” takes place in an imaginary country, I 
tried to keep the details surrounding Maria Elena’s cocaine smuggling effort 
as realistic as possible. As incredible as it may sound to someone unfamiliar 
with drug smuggling, large numbers of travelers, especially women, do indeed 
transport drugs such as cocaine and heroin by swallowing small wrapped 
plastic packages called “pellets”, or “balloons”. Typically the amount 
transported by a drug swallower is around one kilogram, which is divided up 
into 50-100 pellets. The purpose of swallowing drugs is to prevent detection at 
airports by ion scanners and drug-sniffing dogs. This practice can be 
extremely dangerous, because a pellet can break in the courier’s stomach, 
causing an immediate overdose, or the pellets can become blocked in the 
intestinal tract and require surgery for removal.

The fact that Maria Elena is from Colombia is not really a reflection on that 
particular country, because drug couriers come from every country in the 
world, including the US and Europe. I figured that Colombia was as good a 
country as any for my character’s place of birth, but for the purposes of my 
novel Maria Elena could have been from any country in Latin America. My 
purpose in creating a character who spoke only Spanish was to allow me, as a 
writer, to view Danubia and the characters from my previous novels from a 
different perspective. 

While “The Courier” focuses on a new main character, it also continues the 
life stories of several other characters from previous novels, most notably, 
Spokeswoman Kimberly Lee-Dolkivna, Criminal Adjunct Tiffany Walker-
Dukovna, Cecilia Sanchez, Jason Schmidt, and the family of Danubian Prime 
Minister Vladim Dukov. Readers of my previous novels will notice that many 
of the characters have changed and behave somewhat differently than they did 
in the past. The reason for that is very simple: five years have gone by and 
characters who were introduced as university students now have careers and 
marriages, so of course they will act somewhat differently. Each of my 
characters has a life story that, in my imagination, extends beyond the 
confines of any particular novel. An important reason I chose to write “The 
Courier” was to relate more of that ongoing life story for several of my 
characters. The story also will allow readers of my previous novels to re-visit 
Danubia, which under the government of Vladim Dukov is rapidly changing. I 
also will explore some areas of Danubia and aspects of its society that I was 
not able to develop in previous works.