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Hello, I want to take you back a few years to a scene from one of my more perilous

research outings. It's a club in the West End of London, but you'd have to know it was there because there's nothing else facing you when you arrive than a blank door and a bell.

And when the door's opened, there's no formal membership check.

The door simply knows from your face that you're eligible.

He's with me, says the ex-criminal who's my associate in the project.

The door swings open. I never always felt out of place

by research into professional crime, but here in the club I couldn't have stood

out more if I'd been wearing the robes of a high court judge.

I was a good foot taller than anyone else.

Thelands are typically short and stocky, often with muscles well honed from their intermittent stay in prison. I also spoke too

loudly in a room where a conspiratorial whisper seemed de rigour, and I made a

right fool of myself by asking for a pint of bitter and as I gradually

realized everyone else in the place was drinking top of the rain champagne.

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