Roger Ferris Essay

First of all, the principle of the spy universe that the ends justify the means can be observed through the main character Roger Ferris. Indeed, Ferris often sacrifices people or part of his personal life to achieve the ends. For instance, at the beginning of the book Ferris has a source of information whose name is Nizar who needs to get expediated in the United States to be save (p.48). However, Ferris knows that he cannot save this guy, so he takes all the information he needs and promises him an enormous amount of money, clearly knowing that his source of information will get killed before having this money. In fact, not long after Nizar is found dead. This idea is showing that Ferris is more interested by the end which is having the information that Nizar has on Al Qaeda network as fast as he can to predict other terrorist attacks, rather than helping Nizar getting out of the country and …show more content…
In addition, Ferris will also be ready to sacrifice one of his agent’s life and his own life to be able to “call in the predator and take some picture [and] [s]ee who’s coming and going” (p.52) . Indeed, Ferris knows that he is followed by some Iraqi that can kill him and his agent, but he wants to take picture of the location house that his source of information had given him. Finally, Ferris and his agent Bassam achieves to go in front of the house, but gets shots. Bassam dies during this operation and Ferris almost dies, but he is, finally, saved by a Helicopter. By analyzing this scene, it is clear that Ferris is driven by the motto “the ends justify the means,” because he is ready to sacrifice his own life and his agent to take a picture that can end up saving innocent people from a terrorist attack. Indeed, Ferris is not in the dark about being followed, he clearly knows, but he does not care, since he is so focused to achieve the