The CIA, beset with draconian budget cuts and increasing problems, decides on an unprecedented strategy. Every week, the agency gets requests from older people, who want to volunteer their services -- often to fill lives made barren by the loss of their partners. In the past, these requests have always been ignored and filed. Now, some will be addressed. A class of fifty "OLDOGS" volunteers is recruited and trained at the agency's secluded site at...

That's them, walking down a long, empty road in Arizona or Colorado, Texas or New Mexico: Pauley and the Captain. They're two war-damaged, life-saddened buddies looking for nothing more than a cool place to rest and earn a few bucks. They only move on when a murder occurs. One of them is a vicious, knife-wielding serial killer, who's ended eight lives in the last ten years. Now, the F.B.I. has connected the dots between the killings. A task force...