CIA Rat — Daniel Tompkins

In the early years and first episode of this family saga, psychologist Jacob Marin leads a double life after being recruited as an undercover operative for the CIA. Invited to testify as a top secret informant before Congress, he reveals Agency shenanigans observed over the past two decades as a covert part-time field agent: black detention centers, extraordinary rendition, enhanced interrogation techniques, inhumane torture-by-proxy of enemy detainees, America's Gulag Archipelago, the Boom Boom Think Tank, Operation Bing-Bang Boomerang and Project Big Whammy. Subcommittee members are shocked. Meanwhile, future spouse Cookie terminates her faculty position at Pittsburgh Culinary Institute but not before discovering, by peeking into their books, a little known tactic to their success. Moving from job to job she accumulates experience in commercial kitchens preparing for entry into Glen Burnie's entrepreneurial community.