Introduction

Abstract

An LAPD detective and a master thief discuss their respective lives over a cup of coffee. They comment upon their chosen careers, their rela­tions with women, the dreams that haunt them, and the consensus that neither would change how they are. Each man has a personal notion of who he is and what he is doing and, although they are different, their commitment to their chosen beliefs, the individual philosophy each man lives by, is recognisable to the other. They sympathise with the other’s position, yet both are prepared to kill the other if necessary. This commitment is the manner in which they have defined their existence, and the preceding and subsequent events are the consequences of their own personal philosophies, giving them complete freedom and respon­sibility for the world that they inhabit.