Unknown to his friends and associates, for thirty years Klausman has been a free-lance consultant who specializes in the virtually unknown business of covert Corporate Espionage, or as it is sometimes called, Business Intelligence.
He began his law enforcement/intelligence career in the late sixties as a deputy sheriff. While in the academy, he caught the eyes of the Feds by shooting a perfect score in the FBI's new point-shooting method--basically shooting from the hip without aiming.
Washington's intelligence community invited him to have a look, but when he realized the extreme cover under which he would be operating, he returned home to a saner lifestyle, and to begin his intelligence career in the business environment.
To provide believable cover and operating freedom, he owns several businesses. Depending on the length and nature of assignments, he occupies several offices at different times, and employs many types of subcontractors, each for their own unique specialty.
On call round the clock, he entertains in a target's night club one evening and is on a plane to New York the next. With appropriate ID, a bit of nerve and a whole lot of luck, he portrays every profession and occupation imaginable. From a psychiatrist or cook's helper to an accountant or a television newscaster, he does them all and, as far as he knows, only been caught once.
He receives assignments through an internationally known investigator, who maintains Klausman's identities a secret. His clients prefer the anonymity too because it gives them a certain cushion of deniability, should anything unforeseen happen. And, sometimes it does!