Zap Agent Mathis — C.R. Daems

Kate Mathis wasn't sure why she had answered the Ad or why she had gone through the telephone interview or why she was sitting in the bleachers with fifty others considering accepting an offer to be an anti-terrorist agent. Of course it did fit a pattern of not being able to decide what she wanted to do with her life since grammar school. In college she had tried a variety of subjects, played sports, and partied, excelling at each, but she had graduated as undecided as she had been in grammar school. And the Ad, interview, and current speaker made the training sound like hard work and the job dangerous.But they had dangled two worms in front of her: the chance to see the lives of the rich and powerful up close and to protect important people. And she could quit if she decided it wasn't what she was looking for -- whatever that was.To everyone's astonishment, can't-make-up-her-mind and party-girl Kate Mathis survives the training, makes agent, enjoys her job, and finds something she loves -- outmaneuvering the terrorists.