Deadly Virtues
“said Ash. “Don’t read too much into that. I wasn’t sitting at the prime minister’s right hand or anything like that. It was a big department, a whole bunch of us with different backgrounds, different strengths. I was in counterterrorism.”
He flicked her a self-deprecating little grin. “Before you ask, no, I wasn’t licensed to kill. I wasn’t licensed to do anything except read reports and watch video and interpret what I was seeing. I worked in an office in Whitehall. There are field agents, but... I wasn’t one. I trained as an insurance investigator. It turned out the skills you use, the techniques you acquire, are pretty much the same.
“Mostly, getting a feel for when you’re being lied to. Spotting tiny inconsistencies in what you’re being told. And then working out whether they mean the subject is genuinely doing his best, he’s got something wrong precisely because he hasn’t rehearsed what to say, or if it’s a sign that things didn’t happen how he says they happened.MoreLess
He flicked her a self-deprecating little grin. “Before you ask, no, I wasn’t licensed to kill. I wasn’t licensed to do anything except read reports and watch video and interpret what I was seeing. I worked in an office in Whitehall. There are field agents, but... I wasn’t one. I trained as an insurance investigator. It turned out the skills you use, the techniques you acquire, are pretty much the same.
“Mostly, getting a feel for when you’re being lied to. Spotting tiny inconsistencies in what you’re being told. And then working out whether they mean the subject is genuinely doing his best, he’s got something wrong precisely because he hasn’t rehearsed what to say, or if it’s a sign that things didn’t happen how he says they happened.MoreLess
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