Undercover by Stephen Bentley

Undercover by Stephen Bentley

In a Liverpool night club, the Canadian mobster said, Are you guys cops?

Steve Jackson heard him. His blood ran cold.

Jackson wasn't his real name. He was an undercover cop.

Ever wondered about the life of an undercover cop?

What it takes to 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.

In March 1978, 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.

Operation Julie is still today the point of reference for all British undercover operations and training. In 2011, the BC claimed this massive and unique police operation was the start of the war on drugs.

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 plot to import huge quantities of Bolivian cocaine into the UK.

Bentley operated in the era of no undercover training. He improvised as he went along. He was a pioneer infiltrator left to his own devices.

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 and his book have featured on BC Newsnight, BC Wales News, BC Radio 4 World at One and BC Five Live; and also in London's Guardian and Sunday Express newspapers. The book is also now adapted for a feature film.

Bentley, Stephen: - Stephen Bentley is a former UK police Detective Sergeant, pioneering undercover cop, and barrister (criminal trial attorney). He is now a freelance writer and an occasional contributor to Huffington Post UK on undercover policing, and mental health issues. His bestselling memoir, 'Undercover: Operation Julie - The Inside Story, ' is a frank and fascinating insight into his undercover detective experiences during Operation Julie - an elite group of detectives who successfully investigated one of the world's largest drug rings. It has now been adapted for a feature film. Stephen also writes crime fiction in a fast-paced plot-driven style including the Steve Regan Undercover Cop Thriller and the Detective Matt Deal Thriller series. One of his short stories, 'The Rose Slayer, ' won the SIA murder mystery competition in 2018, and has now been published in a multi-author anthology of murder mystery short stories, titled 'Death Among Us.' His fiction draws heavily on his law enforcement background adding that ingredient of authenticity about which the legendary Raymond Chandler opined, Fiction in any form has always intended to be realistic, when writing about the detective story in his essay 'The Simple Art of Murder'(1950). Stephen subscribes to that school of thought. When he isn't writing, Stephen relaxes on the beaches of the Philippines with his family where he now lives, often with a cold beer and a book to hand. You may find him on Twitter as @StephenBentley8 or connect with him at www.stephenbentley.info

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ISBN 13	9786219619042
ISBN 10	6219619048
Title	Undercover
Author	Stephen Bentley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hendry Publishing
Year published	2019-10-22
Number of pages	384
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