Chapters 13-14 Summary

Nick returns to work after his hospitalization. He is greeted by the entire staff, and BR makes a welcome-back speech which Nick likens to a battlefield address. He also announces that there will be major security changes. Academy workers will park in a new lot. They are given pepper spray, and everyone will be sent on a weekend anti-terrorism training retreat. Gomez O'Neill, the Academy's information-retrieval man, asks Nick publicly if he's giving up smoking. Nick takes a drag off of a Camel and grows dizzy.

Nick has become a media darling in recent days, appearing on all the major shows. BR is pressuring him to do some interviews for the Asian market, and Larry King wants him back. Meanwhile, Penelope Bent, former Prime Minister of England, is joining the Agglomerated Tobacco Board of Directors, and the Captain wants Nick to...