‘Very. Anyway, Osborne got himself killed in a gangland shooting about six weeks ago. And everybody’s still squabbling over who gets which piece of turf from his nasty little empire. Meanwhile, nobody is providing a convenient refuge for Radecki’s illegals.’

‘And that’s where you come in?’

‘That’s exactly where I come in.’ She grinned. ‘I turn up in Berlin with a proposition for Radecki. I’m Caroline Jackson.’ She gestured with her thumb towards the small office that opened off the living room. ‘I’ve got a file half an inch thick with Caroline’s back story. Where she went to school, when she lost her virginity, when her parents died and how, where she’s lived over the years, how she’s made a living. Now, she’s a wealthy businesswoman with some very dodgy contacts.’

Tony raised an admonishing finger. ‘Not “she”, Carol. It has to be “I” from now on.’

Carol pursed her lips in rueful acknowledgement. ‘I own the lease on a former US airbase in East Anglia. I have a factory producing hand-made wooden toys on the site, as well as the former barracks. I also have a source of forged Italian passports. I knew Colin Osborne and knew he was getting workers from Radecki. And now Colin’s dead, I’m here to take up the slack. I need workers and I can offer them an even better deal than Colin. They work for me for free for a year and they get legal EU papers. And Radecki gets a market for his illegals.’

Tony nodded. ‘I can see how that would appeal to him. So why do they need the added incentive of someone who looks like his dead girlfriend?’

‘Well, Morgan said it wasn’t the first time they’d thought of putting someone in to pull the scam I’m going to be doing. But there were some reservations because the chances were they’d only be able to get evidence on the final stage of the racket. So, although they would probably net Radecki, they might not be able to roll up his networks behind him. Then I came along. The general idea is that he’ll open up further and faster to me than he would to someone else. Assuming I can gain his confidence, I should be able to find out exactly how his operations work. If I play my cards right, we could close down his drug smuggling, his gunrunning and his people trafficking. And that would be a result worth having.’