Supergrasses and Informers: Informal History of Undercover Police Work

by JamesMorton (Author)

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  Mass Market Paperback
  1996

  $3.48

  This work traces the role of the informer through history, from the fig babblers of Ancient Greece to the supergrasses of the 1970s. It looks at the behaviour of the police in infiltrating criminal enterprises, examining the fine line between undercover agent and agent provocateur.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.48

  This is an omnibus edition of two books about how the police force works. In the first, Morton unravels the tangled history of key players, including Bertie Smalls, the original supergrass, and his successor, King Squealer Maurice O'Mahony. The second is a study of police corruption in the UK.