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pinnacle people. Clearly, though, there are special dangers. Family enmities are generally more vicious than any others. Think of the punch-ups and knifings at typical weddings, christening parties and funerals. Think of Cain and Abel. If you put in undercover to achieve special contact with one brother or cousin or grandson or uncle or grandfather, some of the others are likely to resent this alliance, suspect this alliance. They might see it as an insult to blood, as well as a grubby bit of deviousness.’ She nodded hard a couple of times. ‘Almost inevitably,’ she said. ‘I’ve witnessed that more than once. It can be very hairy.’ She went silent, reminiscing, then having a mind-change forced on her by whatever it was she thought of. ‘Yes. Very. Forgive me, I’m jumping about rather today, but, look, I think that at this point I must switch from a plod job of categorizing crook firms and revert to the crucial, more urgent question of what the planted officer should do if things turn bad, and what
you
should do, and should have done before planting her/him, in case they turn bad.’ She paused again, passed a hand over her face, as though checking for tears. Although she wouldn’t talk much about failures, it seemed she couldn’t altogether ignore or forget them.
    In a while she said: ‘Above everything, you’ll need to make sure your Out-located man/woman within a targeted firm gets briefed on how to read the signs that her cover – I’ll talk female throughout because I am one, but take it as for both sexes – yes, she must,
must,
be taught how to spot that her cover has been suddenly blown.’ She frowned, wagged the same hand, to indicate second thoughts. ‘ I say “suddenly”, because that’s dramatic and I want to keep you awake, but, really, it’s more likely to be a gradual thing. If the cover collapses all at once it will be because of some glaring mistake or bit of diabolically poor luck. Obviously, these should not occur, as long as the preparation has been efficient. The one good factor about such a crisis is that the undercover officer will be instantly aware it has happened and she should leave everything and sprint down the fire escape.
    ‘But when the cover breakdown is bit by bit, things can be difficult and much more dangerous. Why? Well, the officer might not feel totally sure it’s taking place. She’ll be non-stop tense in any case – you can’t be undercover and
not
tense – and so she’ll possibly tell herself that, because of the stress, she’s
imagining
symptoms of suspicion in the colleague villains around her when, in fact, none exist. Is she getting scared of shadows? She’ll
want
to believe everything is fine. This is
her
show. Undercover has almost always to be solo. It can become an ego thing. She’d be ashamed to cave in to simple jitters. And so she stays too long, leaves it too late to alert the on-call rescue party. In a mo I’ll list some of the symptoms to be watched for. And, of course, I’ll detail now the kind of exit and aid structure you must – again
must
– must have in place before any officer is committed to an undercover spell. Perhaps we all know of cases that have brought tragedy.’ Again she touched her face just below the eyes. ‘Right then, you will, please, always provide:
    1. A posse on continuous readiness to go in and get the officer out, by force if necessary.
    2. A communications system that is negation sensitive. That is, there will be set times for the undercover officer to get in touch with base and if one of these fails by more than an agreed duration the posse moves to recover.
    3. Gun carriers in the rescue unit.
    4. First aiders in the rescue unit.
    5. Fat cash with the aid unit in case our officer has been freighted away for execution somewhere and a bribe is crucial to locate her in time. At least a thousand and in old bills no higher than twenties. Preferably tens. Definitely not fucking fifties –
excusezmoi.
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