Recruiting the Criminal: Difference between revisions

* This happens twice in the ''[[Shadow of the Templar]]'' series: in the first book, [[Gentleman Thief]] Jeremy Archer offers to help the FBI stop his former employer when said former employer turns out to be a terrorist; in the second book, the "set a thief to catch a thief" maxim is played ''completely'' straight when the FBI calls him up for help in catching a thief with an identical M.O. and a murderous streak.

* In [[Andre Norton]]'s ''The Time Traders'', the U.S. [[Time Travel]] operation recruited a lot of the sort of people — [[In Harm's Way|"the expendable man who lives on action"]] — who had been "pressured by the peaceful environment into becoming a criminal or a misfit." It's not spelled out how many had become actual criminals, but certainly protagonist Ross Murdock was facing [[Brainwashing for the Greater Good|"the Rehabilitation Service"]] after having finally been caught. Sent back into some very '''''un'''''-peaceful history, he became a successful and highly regarded agent — and '''liked''' the job.

 

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