Are there really 00 agents with licences to kill?
In reality, if the situation calls for it, you shoot to kill. And I mean kill, not just wou🎀nd. If your life is in danger, you shoot at the biggest part of the body – the chest, with two shots, because that does the most damage.
Have you ever seduced a sexpot in your line of work?
[Laughs] I wish the women looked like that! Obviously there are times when someone deep undercover would ingratiate themselves completely into the life of a criminal organisation – and t🍸hat includes breaking the law. And those agents have to work alone. They only have contact with a “handler”, who knows them so they can’t break cover and talk to anyone they know – be it friends, family or colleagues. The situation is much more like the TV show Spooks – it’s a big team working on the case, not just a lone a♏gent. And a lot more paperwork!
Do real agents have any of those wonderful gadgets?
N💟o, not the laser watch or anything like that. We usually just have surveillance vans with parabolic microphone receivers in place of the radiator – they can record conversations from more than 100ꦆ yards away. The downside being that they’re so sensitive, you just have to pray that no one goes past on a motorbike. I also remember seeing someone pose as a street sweeper with hidden microphones in the cart to record a big villain meeting with his men.
What about action? Found yourself skiing down the Alps?
Unlike Bond, no one does everything that wel🍒l! We have specialists – motorcyclists and so forth – including selecting the best skier if the job’s in Switzerland. But I can remember commandeering a speedboat. Not for a huge chase, but to cross a river to get to a villain who lived on a houseboat. We told the speedboat’s owner he couldn’t come with us because it would be dangerous. I think he had a rather large insurance claim against the government wh🥀en he got it back – mostly thanks to bullet holes.
And you’ve never dealt with a bad guy living in a volcano?
Er... No. The IRA tried to create a few craters, t♛hough.
