"Linda Evans - Time Scout 5 - License Invoked" - читать интересную книгу автора (Evans Linda)

"You have?" For the first time in the conversation, the chief abandoned
his mad long enough to look directly at his aide.
"You forget, sir, I have two teenagers at home," the aide said with a
smile. "Green Fire is currently all the rage in the younger set. An
Irish group, I believe."

"Well, those are the 'dignitaries' we're supposed to be providing
protection for," the chief said, returning to his tirade. "At least for
their lead singer. What's her name . . . ?"

"Fionna Kenmare," the aide supplied.

"That's the one. Anyway, the group's about to start a performing tour
of the U.S., except the lead singer has been getting threats and had a
couple unverified attacks on her. Normally, I'd try to dodge it, but
the Brits are taking it seriously and sending along a protective escort
of their own. That means we're stuck. There's no way we're going to let
someone from a foreign agency wander around over here without someone
from our side tagging along."

"Excuse me, sir," the aide said with a frown. "Did I understand you to
say 'unverified attacks'?"

"That's the kicker." The chief nodded. "It seems the threats she's been
getting, as well as the unconfirmed attacks, have been of a psychic
nature. In short, magic. Real bibbity-bobbity-boo stuff. Just what we
need to help us with our leisure time problem. We're already spreading
our manpower dangerously thin and -- at are you smiling at? Did I say
something funny?"

"As a matter of fact, sir, you've already solved your own problem."

"I have?"

"Yes, sir. You have. As soon as you mentioned 'bibbity-bobbity-boo.' It
reminded me that there happens to be another department you can
delegate this whole problem to."

The chief began to smile, too.

***

No one could remember exactly how Department BBB got its designation or
what BBB was originally supposed to stand for. It might as well have
stood for "Bibbity-bobbity-boo," however, because that's how everyone
referred to it. That is, everyone who knew of its existence . . . or
remembered it at all.

Department BBB got its start back in the '60s, roughly about the same
time the CIA was conducting its clandestine experiments on the possible