Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What you get is a big, bustling, intermittently dippy melodrama that takes the Preston premise a few steps further. The virus becomes airborne and infects a California town. Now sneezing in a crowded theater can spread an instant epidemic. And a cute monkey may be the innocent agent of genocide...
...those masters; he recruited Larry into spying and "ran" him, in the parlance of the trade, for some 20 years, while a succession of KGB chiefs in London were fooled into believing that Larry was actually working for them. Despite his skill as a double agent, Tim's protaga retains a belief in his own innocence, a Byronic flair with women and a hunger for lost causes. "My sin," Tim reflects, "was to promote the cheat in him above the dreamer, which is why he sometimes hated me a little more than I deserved...
...they perform in full uniform. They usually make between $10 and $15 an hour, and many work 40 or more extra hours a week. The department's pay scale has also led to problems in recruiting qualified applicants. "Everybody knows they are grossly underpaid," says Neil Gallagher, FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans office. "And still people wonder why there is corruption...
...they perform in full uniform. They usually make between $10 and $15 an hour, and many work 40 or more extra hours a week. The department's pay scale has also led to problems in recruiting qualified applicants. "Everybody knows they are grossly underpaid," says Neil Gallagher, FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans office. "And still people wonder why there is corruption...
...Sheldon's research agent and I did a great deal of work in reading hospital and court records and looking up the medical and social backgrounds of the people we were working with...