Supergrasses and Informers: Informal History of Undercover Police Work

by JamesMorton (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.40

  Tracing the role of the informer through history, from the fig babblers of Ancient Greece to Britain's supergrasses of the 1970s, this book also explores the behaviour of the police and private detectives in infiltrating criminal enterprise. It examines the fine line between undercover agent and agent provocateur, in locations ranging from Ireland to America. The author's other books include Gangland , Nipper , Bent Coppers and Mad Frank