so he had gotten his license and hung out his shingle as a private investigator.-he had been pretty successful , too , if he did say so himself.-he had saved up a nice hunk of change for retirement as a result of several lucrative cases he had closed during his three year practice in owensboro.-now , however , he found himself in dallas , deputized as a federal drug enforcement agent and given the task of guarding , of all things , a crooked cop.-no , he would not have looked kindly on the offer of a bribe from the ex-sheriff.- not at all , at all .