We decided to go back to basics and put the frighteners on some snouts."" Really?"" We adopted a proactive intelligence-gathering policy utilising appropriate stakeholders in the community and pre-established covert human intelligence sources." And nobody can put a frightener on a covert human quite like Lesley can.

Ben Aaronovitch
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I’m not quite sure what the “frighteners” are but I can tell you that they are very effective. I don’t know if anyone is getting the point but Lesley is doing her thing and it appears to be working.

Source: Rivers Of London: Detective Stories #2

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