B y the late spring of 1994, I was still using my Eric Weiss identity and still working at the law firm in Denver. It wasn’t unusual for me to spend my entire lunch hour on my cell phone. This was long before the landscape became littered with people enjoying the freedom of gabbing wirelessly: these were the days when airtime still cost a dollar per minute. Looking back, I’m sure it must have seemed extremely suspicious that I spent so much time on the cell phone, especially since I was making only $28,000 a year.