Duran nodded and then managed a cordial smile. “So aside from pitching grown men from their porches, how has retirement been treating you?” “Like hell,” she admitted. “It was great for the first few weeks but it got old fast. I miss my job. I’ve taken to reading an insane amount of true crime books. I’m watching far too many crime shows on the Biography Channel.” “You’d be surprised how often we hear that from agents in their first six to twelve months after retirement. Some of them call begging for some sort of work. Anything we have. Even paperwork or bullshit wiretaps.”

