Neil Michaels

As Harry Turtledove describes him, Neil Michaels is a "middle-sized man in his late thirties, most of his dark-blond hair covered by a snap-brim fedora." He had the 'mild appearance of an accountant'.

But, in fact, Michaels is an FBS agent, sent to New Orleans after the other agent the Bureau sent ended up in the Mississippi River.

He went to the Original Absinthe House on the corner of Bourbon and Bienville, where he received a lapdance.