The Last Job by Dan Bilefsky

Author:Dan Bilefsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2019-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The Art of Snooping and Waiting

KNOWN FOR HIS IMPERTURBABILITY AND PATIENCE, Johnson was particularly skilled in surveillance operations. He had spent years running covert operations that relied on surreptitiously installing listening devices in the cars or homes of criminals and then pouncing when the moment was right. Hunting and outsmarting bank robbers was one of his specialties. “I have seen my fair share of jobs,” he says, quickly adding, “no more than anyone else.”1

The hunter and the hunted could not have been more different. Both were determined that their “last job” would be successful and burnish their legacies. But while the gang was loud and boisterous and urged themselves along with their incessant bluster, Johnson was calm, deliberate, and meticulous. He took nothing for granted. In many ways, his entire career had prepared him for this case.

Johnson grew up in Manchester where soccer is a religion and what team you support is tantamount to choosing a lifelong spouse. Johnson proudly supported Manchester City, a one-time beleaguered east Manchester club that was founded in 1880 and had been in the shadow of its more flamboyant and successful rival, Manchester United, the one-time home of David Beckham. His was the choice of someone with a natural inclination to root for the underdog.

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