Sara K.
Schneider’s
ART OF DARKNESS
Ingenious
Performances by Undercover
Operators, Con
Men, and Others
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
•
Not Not Identities
•
Elementary Collusion
1.
CRAFT & ARTIFICE: THE UNDERCOVER COVER STORY
• Cover Story: Talking to Save
One’s Life
2.
BEING GOOD AT BEING BAD: GOING UNDERCOVER
• Casting the Role
• The Undercover as Director
• Role Features
• Building Rapport and Fitting In
• Learning and Transmission
• The Undercover Performer
3.
THE ARTIFACTS OF IDENTITY
• Fake Identities: Paper
People
• Disguise Artists and Detection
4.
THE CRAFTY EXPEDIENT: CON SCENARIOS FOR PASSING TRICK IDENTITIES
• The Con Scenario: In Tacit Tandem
• Qualifying the Mark
5.
MUDDIED IDENTITIES
• Rotting Cops
• Going Good: Informants
6.
IDENTITY BREAKDOWN
• Damage Control
• Undercovers in Groups
• Recognition Scenes: Attempted
Homicide
• Restoring Questioned
Identities
• Assisted Suicide
• Ego Death
APPENDIX:
SCENARIO AND SCENARIST AS VIRTUOSI: THE “ART-CONS” OF ALLEN FUNT
AND JAMES P.
COYLE & MAL SHARPE
Sources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Index
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