'Are you guys cops?' the Canadian mobster asked.
Steve Jackson heard him. His blood ran cold.
Jackson was not his real name. He was an undercover cop.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be an undercover cop? How you infiltrate a worldwide drugs gang?
What it feels like to live a double life? - to 'live a lie.'
Read this gripping true story of Britain's biggest drug bust and get inside the head of a real undercover cop, an infiltrator.
The underworld knew the author as Steve Jackson. How did he successfully infiltrate the two gangs? Did he have to take drugs? And how did 'living a lie' affect him?
The author, Stephen Bentley, was one of four undercover detectives engaged on Operation Julie, one of the world's largest drug busts. Together with his undercover partner, he infiltrated the gang producing around 90 percent of the world's LSD and uncovered a Description to import huge quantities of Bolivian cocaine into the UK.
He operated in the era of no undercover training, improvising as he went along: a pioneer infiltrator left to his own devices.
At the culmination of Operation Julie, fifteen defendants, including doctors, research chemists, a writer, and 'professional' drug dealers were sentenced to a combined total of one hundred- and-twenty-four-years imprisonment.
This huge and unique covert police operation is still today the point of reference for all British undercover operations and training. In 2011, the BBC claimed this massive operation was the start of the war on drugs.
The author and his book have featured on BBC Newsnight, BBC Wales News, BBC Radio 4 World at One and BBC Five Live, BBC regional radio in addition to Wales on Sunday, London's Guardian and Sunday Express newspapers.
It is now optioned to be adapted for a feature film.