Since he was flying as an air marshal he couldn’t have a drink, and no dinner was being served, so he used the two and a half hours to take a closer look at Gloria’s psych evaluation. The death of her husband had hit her very hard, as was to be expected. For the first couple of weeks she’d had trouble focusing, and she’d had frequent outbursts of temper, flying off the handle almost uncontrollably. When the assistant DDO, Chuck Bratton, suggested she take a leave of absence for a month or two, she’d become so enraged that security had to be called to get her under control. The Company shrinks hospitalized her for seven days, but she’d bounced back and been certified fit for service, though none of her co-workers or her immediate supervisor on the Latin American desk where she’d been assigned believed it. Yet she’d been assigned to Paris Station on the recommendation of Dr. Norman Stenzel, chief of the CIA’s Medical Services Psychological Division, who’d written that leaving her at Langley could possibly damage her sense of self-esteem badly enough to make her nearly useless in future field assignments.
