In the long run more mercenaries have had their asses shot off by their contractors than by their enemies. - Lois McMaster Bujold

“I really like this married-couple cover, for travel,” he remarked. “It suits me.” He took a slightly deeper breath. “So we’ve had the honeymoon, why don’t we have the wedding to go with it?”

"No, no, never send interim reports," said Miles. "Only final ones. Interim reports tend to elicit orders. Which you must then either obey, or spend valuable time and energy evading, which you could be using to solve the problem."

A contractor, early? Really? Already your tale begins to resemble some drunken hallucination.