This book is a metaphysical visionary mystery fantasy novel, a psychological thriller set in a World of secret societies and hidden agenda's written by Dan Jones, a hypnotherapist with Asperger's who has a slightly different view on the World than most.This is a tale of mind reading, covert influencing and murder. The story explores the power of the mind and the power to influence others using hypnotic techniques. The hypnotic assassin is a master of his own mind, he uses hypnosis on himself to alter his perceptions of time and reality and to enhance what he is capable of physically and mentally. He uses hypnotic techniques to read the minds of others and to plant thoughts and ideas in people's minds and to make people willingly do things he wants them to do. This is the first story in the 'Followers of the Light' series.For thousands of years Hypnotic Assassins have existed to help free the people. Around 4,500 years ago they were known as 'Assassins of the Light', 2,000 years ago this changed to 'Followers of the Light'. Hypnotic Assassins stood for freedom and peace until almost all being wiped out in 1938 when one assassin became hungry for power and domination and decided all the other assassins must die.Since that time very few Hypnotic Assassins remain, yet they continue to help to free the people and correct injustice. Sam Carter is one such assassin. Sam lives a quiet life four hours from the great City of London in a small boxy flat. Being a Hypnotic Assassin this is all he needs.Every day when Sam isn't on a mission he walks the one mile journey into his local town to sit at the same seat in the Marlborough Café for 90 minutes, reading minds and drinking tea, where one day he picks up a mission to assassinate Michael Rawlins, CEO of SiLo, a Nuclear Fusion research company who is planning on selling a nuclear weapon and advanced nuclear technology to someone in Europe.This starts out to be a straight forward and simple mission. But Sam’s life end’s up on the line, with Sam needing to use all his hypnotic skills just to survive.This story is a work of fiction; the hypnotic aspects are based on facts. The author has over 20 years’ experience with hypnosis. With the use of hypnosis, people have been helped to hallucinate, to enhance senses, to alter their perception of time, to increase learning and to do many of the other skills mentioned within this story.This novel was written by the author in a hypnotic trance as part of National Novel Writing Month, and is an example of what can be achieved within just a short time frame of a couple of weeks. This novel is the first of a new three-part story. At the end of this book is a chapter 'Introduction to some of the Hypnotic Techniques Used by the Hypnotic Assassins' giving a brief introduction to some of the basic techniques of hypnosis as used by the hypnotic assassin.