My second visit to St Johns Library in this festival was for
a very different event to my first, the illustrious crime panel, this time I
was looking forward to being given an insight into the criminal underground
where drugs are the main currency and people take unbelievable risks to traffic
them into the country. The programme promised discussion to include criminal
motivation, methods of intelligence gathering, cocaine production and smuggling
and money laundering.
Cameron Addicott was an undercover officer in H.M Customs
and the Serious Organised Crime Agency for nearly twenty years . He was a
Criminal Investigator, Covert Surveillance Operative and Commander, an Informant Handler and an Undercover
Officer. Since leaving this work he is now a director of a Security Services company
and is writing another book.
I really enjoyed listening to Cameron talk, as did my
husband. He told a number of stories about his working life and reminisced about
life undercover before turning the conversation to the dramatisation of his
first book ‘The Interceptor’ which is currently being shown on BBC1. It has
been a fantastic series and I hope that it is optioned for a second series.
Thank you to the festival organisers for supplying me with
two tickets in return for a review.
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