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After their snake handler’s docile specimen has an onset mishap, the real thing slithers into view.

Perhaps Maria plunges into her yearlong effort to secure long-term care for her mom—getting the insurance company to talk to the third-party records handler, who won’t talk to Kaiser and so forth.

Far from the madding crowd, not to mention from the alluring presence of his MI6 handler and former lover, Faith Green, Gabriel works away in his cottage on a travel book about the world’s rivers.

He says that some ransomware gang members sometimes talked about speaking to "their handlers" in the Russian security services, like the FSB.

With the fall of Saigon in late spring 1975, he is ordered by his North Vietnamese handler to follow the South Vietnamese general into exile and report back on his activities.