If you need some backup when you see this person, give a yell.

I'll agrre with Deimos for once, Caliburn. Someone is keeping information and specialists critical to the sucess of our missions on my side of the fence, while we are pulling down more missions than ever before, with the bodycount coast to coast starting to look like a small war.

At the same time contacts and assets critical to your sucessful performance of a very welcome service in a timely and discrete maner are being interfered with.

I fear something fishy is going on up on the hill, and I don't think it is election politics as normal. (Although it would not surprise me too much to find out someone was pulling the strings so they can "resolve" the problem once they get their next office.)

Ron Caliburn wrote:They went upstairs and took everything in my "private collection" too. That includes most everything I use for field work.

"Most" but not "all", I hope. Do you still have some stuff at home to keep your family safe?

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I called Red, and he sent me files on some fugitives we think are hiding in your neck of the woods. You could pick them up for the normal cut, and the only thing left in your shop would be furniture. If you're interested, I can PM you the details and mail you the credentials you'll need.

Sure. I'll go over the process from the beginning, though I'm sure you're familiar with some of it.

There was one cat, I'll call him P. His girlfriend called police and told them they were having a lover's spat when P poured gasoline over her and started going through his pockets for a match--he actually asked her, "Where is my lighter?"

She got a warrant for his arrest from the magistrate, who at the same time set P's bail. The cops picked him up, he bonded with my old boss's company, and he got a court date.

He never showed up.

Now the company is out over three thousand bucks. That's where Red and Frog and the rest come in. If they find the cat, and bring him back to Indiana for trial, they'll get 10% of the bail money.

If they drove to DC and spent a week looking for him, that wouldn't even cover their hotel room, so none of them want the case. You already live there, though, so all it would cost you is gas, and some of these are more valuable than P. I just used him because he was on top of the stack.

Hmm. I thought the company was already licensed in D.C. I'll talk to the "legal department" on Monday, maybe he'll have some ideas. I'll also pass your idea along to Frog, see if he'll jump at it.

I bet that this "Lace Pyopas" is a member of the "Night of Cult" and was "transferred" in order for the Cult to have an inside person!

Ron, if you need someone to hold a backup kit of yours, you know I got your back!