Global Security is a private intelligence firm with a problem. The toxic combination of stress and boredom is killing its field operatives - suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, autoerotic asphyxia and other deaths by misadventure are rampant. When new management deals with the problem by surrounding their most promising operatives with a support team, a net is cast far and wide for complementary talents and personalities. Sappho meets Lewis and Clark when Julie Romane, the twenty-one year-old straight-arrow daughter of a con artist mother, is one of the new recruits. She struggles with the...