... Director Garza, may I help you?…Susan handed the phone to Brand. “Put the phone on the scrambler,” Brand said in Spanish. “Hold on.” He came bac... ...it was wrapped in. Brand read it: “This phone is a special issue, untraceable, and with a scrambler feature, but the best way for us to communicate ... ... sure there’s one in the Embassy,” Susan said. “If we’re here that long. The untraceable scrambler phone should last a week, and the website e-mail...

...ainting bought was scant consolation – especially as no one was buying! After an hour of eavesdropping among the usual crush of wine-sipping social scramblers, I wished I hadn’t. Stepping back, I collided with an elderly, shapeless little woman loosely wrapped in a sari decorated with mirrors. ‘Young man!’ she demanded as though I’d been caught spraying graffiti, ‘Are ...

...pter Six A: Civilization The Effect of Civilization on Humans 388 lighter scramblers? They would be made fools of. Pete Sampras without his ser...

...70 In the Days of the Comet obsessed and witless Governments cried out for scramblers, and a stream of shabby, tricky, and violent adventurers set out...

...n them is not roughened, as at midday, by those knotted hard ridges of the scrambler’s hand seen from forehead down to jaw; when in- deed they have al...