What is the ART OF DARKNESS?
Just like
Scheherazade, undercover agents talk to save their lives.
Only if they put in a poor
performance,
they don’t see the curtain rise again.
Art
of Darkness pries open the virtuoso identity techniques
practiced by undercover operatives,
fugitives, disguise artists, pranksters, con artists, and federally
protected witnesses.
It draws on original interviews
with
undercover operators
in order to show how identity
artists on both sides of the law …
- obtain fake ID,
- develop a disguise,
- build a cover story,
- maintain
believability in
street
performances, and
- deal with threats to
their
identities ...
—all
without formal acting training.