The morning after Donald Trump won the presidential election, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Amr Shady called his immigration lawyer in a panic.
Weeks later, the Justice Department announced the indictments of nearly 60 people in India and the United States for involvement in shady call centers that had conned more than 15,000 Americans out of hundreds of millions of dollars since 2012.
From his hospital bed, the detective still sees himself in his novel, called in by a shady character called Mark Binney to solve the murder of a prostitute.
Liposuction, in a sad case of irony, often makes you appear even lumpier, as does weight loss (less fat in the affected area means what does remain shows through even more.) There's a somewhat shady treatment called mesotherapy which involves an injection of something called phosphatidylcholine, a purported fat-dissolver.
We'd been invited by a shady character called Oleg we'd met in Doncaster at Ukip's conference.
Struggling with his attraction to other boys, Aaron seeks the ministrations of a shady outfit called the Leteo Institute, which is in the business of expunging painful memories through a "revolutionary" procedure.
In fact a small number have even been secretly filmed, submitting properly audited accounts and putting large cheques into brown envelopes which have somehow have fallen into the hands of a shady organisation called the Inland Revenue.
A shady character called Mikkel Höst had a pass card to access all areas of Medisonus and recently used it, possibly to score the drugs/bacteria/vaccines he'd earmarked for future terrorist outrages.
A calamitous trip to the airport includes detours through shady areas called Pidgin Town and Jackass Ridge, where even an encounter with a potential rapist is given a comic spin.
Some, especially in the north, do not hold clear title to their land, which makes them reluctant to invest; they often hire labour from shady contractors called gatos, who sometimes abuse their workers, exposing ranchers to charges of using slave labour.
In his account of the EU referendum campaign, the Ukip donor talked about meeting the Russian ambassador to the UK when he described meeting "a shady character called Oleg" who was attending the party's annual conference at Doncaster racecourse in September 2015.
