The Recruiter

Seducer. Recruiter. What's the difference...' Army recruiter Scotty Mason is feeling the heat. Caught in an unpopular war and peddling recruitment to an unwilling public, his quotas are down, he faces rejection and taunting day after day, and his superiors are pressuring him to do better even while he is doing his absolute best. An encounter with a uniquely promising young man named Derek unexpectedly changes the course of his life. Unsuccessful in trying to sign him up for the army,...
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Seducer. Recruiter. What's the difference...' Army recruiter Scotty Mason is feeling the heat. Caught in an unpopular war and peddling recruitment to an unwilling public, his quotas are down, he faces rejection and taunting day after day, and his superiors are pressuring him to do better even while he is doing his absolute best. An encounter with a uniquely promising young man named Derek unexpectedly changes the course of his life. Unsuccessful in trying to sign him up for the army, Scotty finds himself feeling isolated, lost, anxious and on edge. He is stung by this rejection over any other, almost to the point of obsession. What is it about this Derek kid that causes Scotty to feel this way? Or maybe, the better question is... what is it about Scotty that makes him feel the way that he does? The eye-opening answer comes from Mike, an assistant professor he met at Dartmouth. Mike's done his own intellectual recruiting, years ago. And he's got quite a bit to say about what it all has to do with seduction...