NEIL LANCASTER spent 25 years with the Metropolitan Police targeting some of the UK’s most serious criminals – drug dealers, fraudsters and serial killers. But the suspect who unnerved him most was an Albanian hired to broker two Killing Eve-style contract murders. Detectives were tipped off and Lancaster’s team was able to disrupt the hit – almost certainly saving two innocent lives. Now retired and an acclaimed author, he believes covert policing has a tarnished reputation. But while undercover cops, informants, bugs and intercepts might leave a bad taste, such tactics save lives, as he reveals here in a gripping blowby-blow account…
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