“THE PERSON OF a foreign service officer shall remain inviolate,” Danny said, his right hand motioning to the sky, the canyon, the threesome of planes flying overhead. Daniel Coma who, if he had been born a generation earlier, say in 1910, and had wanted to have the job he had, dirty tricks hire under the cover of being an American foreign service officer, well, there would have been really no such work. The United States embassies, at first, were few and important. The United States was the new country, and abroad there were the first responders to the new hopeful country of 1776. The first responder was the Netherlands, then Paris (with Ben Franklin, yes, France), and Morocco. There was China, Japan, Siam. These were the legacy missions: Paris, the Hague, Rabat, Tokyo. Danny dreamed of

