A Routine Operation (2002)

From publisher blurb:

This is a standard Living Spycraft mission for a team of up to six 2nd level agents.

Not all adventures begin in glamorous fashion. Espionage agencies perform a wide variety of relatively unexciting activities on a daily basis, from long-term low-importance surveillance to record sweeps to casual tails targeting unimportant suspects. Most agents consider these tasks to be mind-numbing drudgery and avoid them at all costs. Unfortunately for new recruits, this is precisely the type of operation that the Agency assigns low-ranking agents, hoping to cut their teeth before sending them on matters of global import. (The Agency also assigns these missions to experienced agents with poor performance records, as well as those who arouse the ire of their superiors.)

The agents begin this serial assigned to just such a mission.