O Is For
Operative, Operation, and Orchestrated Murders and Perhaps even Organized Crime
If you watch
James Bond movies and other movies of that ilk, you understand operative. Dan
Brown's Books give you a look beyond operatives, most any books dealing with
syndicated crime, crime families or the Mafia will put in in a position to know
about operatives. In general most likely refer to a secret agent, a spy. He or
she could be a double dealer, a double
agent working for both sides. A Tight-rope, a thin wire and most stressful way
to live—but great fodder for a mystery writer.
Whole books
have been written about the operation, the means, methods and mind set of Crime
Families. Usually, lumped under the title Mafia, the book The Mafia Encyclopedia, From Accardo to Zwillman by Carl Sifakis or
Organized Crime, The Insider's Guide to
the World's Most Successful Industry, by Paul Lunde define and delineates
Mafia and Organized Crime for a writer.
Operation
can refer to a heist, or robbery by local hoodlums, or a formal, plotted plan
of larger international or national significance—with or without Mafia or
Syndicated Crime Families.
Ghost Musicof Vaudeville involves an operative; it involves a Crime Family, yet the guilty
party is merely a pawn in the whole operation. He is expendable, which serves
to remind the reader and the writer that in the world of crime, especially
Syndicated Crime, everyone is expendable. Usually,
once in the Family the only way out is feet first, perhaps, tied to a cement
block and pushed off a pier.
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