In Bad Company

"In the sad-funny vein of Grand Hotel, we get to know the lives of these operatives from the twenty-fourth century. We watch their reactions as they screen, for relaxation, D. W. Griffith's Intolerance; we root for Oscar as he tries repeatedly to sell the Criterion Patented Brassbound Pie Safe; we duck as bullets fly overhead; and we learn that Mendoza is being haunted in her dreams by the man she loved and lost three centuries ago. Then his ghost is unexpectedly reincarnated with the arrival of a very large, very smooth, and very handsome British spy: Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax."--BOOK JACKET.