In 1992, he was convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the death of Enrique Camarena Salazar, a longtime agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration who had helped discover and destroy billions of dollars worth of drugs controlled by the so-called Guadalajara Cartel in the mid-1980s.
In Las Vegas, Ken Lowman, a longtime agent for luxury properties, said four of the 11 sales he brokered in June were distressed properties.
"Whoever has the political skill to emerge will also have the requisite skill to heal the wounds and forge consensus," said Leigh Steinberg, a longtime agent and observer of union matters.
Ms. Rowley, 46, a longtime agent who has spent the last 12 years of her career in Minneapolis, refused to comment today about the 13-page letter that she sent this week to a Congressional committee.
"Everyone's afraid of Amazon," said Richard Curtis, a longtime agent who is also an e-book publisher.
This imbalance between different slices of the market is a hangover of the housing crash, said Dave Emerson, a longtime agent in Lakewood who recently retired.
"This upfront has no level of excitement to it at all," said Alan Berger, a longtime agent now with the Creative Artists Agency.
His longtime agent of more than 25 years, Ted Chichak, insisted, however, that Mr. Harrington had overstated his contributions to other writers and had really acted primarily as a research collaborator.
"He doesn't skimp," said Albert Zuckerman, Mr. Follett's longtime agent and the chairman of Writer's House, a group of American literary agents.
Rogers, the longtime agent and close friend of the former champion Andre Agassi, has been one of de Villiers's primary allies and advisers in developing and negotiating a new structure and calendar for the men's tour in 2009.
