The plan was simple, which is what I told Andrea, and which is what she told me was going to get me arrested. The plan was this: I would drop the police report. I would tell Miles that I had decided not to press charges. I would let him think he had won. And then I would let him sell the fish to Kenner, and I would let Kenner take delivery, and I would let the Department of Justice find out about the sale, not from me, but from the fact that the fish was a controlled substance and the sale was illegal in four jurisdictions.
"You're setting up a sting," Andrea said. "You're not a cop."
"I'm not setting up anything. I'm just not stopping them."
"That's the same thing."
"It's not the same thing," I said. "It's giving someone enough rope."
Andrea was silent for a moment. Then she said, "I
