But Russia's invasion of Georgia makes this debut thriller grippingly topical.Finn, an agent in Moscow for MI6, the British foreign intelligence service, is ordered to spy on Anna, a beautiful colonel in the FSB, its Russian counterpart.
He pleaded no contest, was sentenced six weeks later to 18 months of probation and 100 hours of community service and was ordered to pay court fines.
And recently, when the music file-sharing service Napster was ordered to block the access it provided to copyrighted music, some users began renaming titles in a form of pig Latin to confuse the filter.
While organizing and training new recruits to form a Confederate signal service, he was ordered to report to Brig.
Judge Katharine S. Hayden of the United States District Court sentenced Mr. Lowson, 41, and Mr. Kirsch, 38, the company's owners, to two years of probation and 300 hours of community service, and Mr. Lowson was ordered to forfeit $1.2 million.
Furloughed at the end of the Philadelphia campaign, Scott returned to active service in March 1779 and was ordered to South Carolina to assist General Benjamin Lincoln in the southern theater.
COMMUNITY SERVICE FOR GUILLEN: Mariners shortstop Carlos Guillen was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service for negligent driving.
The press reported that Williams was at the very top of President Richard Nixon's enemies list, and that the Internal Revenue Service was ordered to "zing" him.
Watergate investigators were also told that the Secret Service was ordered to keep him under physical surveillance President Nixon said he had ordered the wiretap to monitor "others who were trying to get him, perhaps, to use improper influence" with the Nixon Administration.
A popular joke when he was vice president was that if anything happened to president George H.W. Bush, "the Secret Service was ordered to shoot Quayle".
In one lawsuit, five of the anonymous defendants protested when their internet service providers were ordered to reveal their identities.
