The Buyer

The real Line of Duty.'The first rule of covert surveillance is never, never, disturb the environment. To be an undercover officer, you must watch and wait. Before that, though, is the question of identity. Embarking on a covert operation you first must decide who you are. Who will you be today?'Liam Thomas was an officer in the Met for over a decade, many of those years spent deep at the heart of Britain's most dangerous criminal enterprises in the murky world of undercover surveillance. Before him, his father had also been a police officer, a pillar of their small community.Fighting corruption was Liam's life. But then he discovers a family secret, one which teaches him that corruption is closer to home than he had ever expected. The shocking revelation takes him into a line of work that pushes him to the very edge of his sanity ¿ and then he discovers that his bosses are investigating him¿A thrilling memoir of a life lived amongst a world of corruption, justice and questionable loyalties, this book tells the real story of the police¿s line of duty.