The shadowy underworld is a subterranean nightmare of criminals playing around with corruption of all kinds. They occupy our nightmares and haunt our streets with their plots to carefully disturb our quiet ways of life. This isn’t just terrorism but all types of street crime, surface level activity, and corruption at the highest points of professional life.
The work to undo it, to confront it, and to repel it yet further from our shores is supported by a whole host of clever – and careful – citizens. They serve the country by dedicating their time and skills to combatting the worst threats to our existence. They go online, hide inside, and circumnavigate the globe looking for opportunities to make us safer.
It’s not an easy job and it carries the same risks as the many others who do it for other countries. They serve our interests in particular, support our government foremost, and uphold our ways and values above all other attempts to subvert them. This is a key role in today’s world and will prove to be long into the future.