Undercover Agent in Entertainment Industry
Okay, I apologise in advance for the vagueness of this inquiry. I am still in the early planning stages, so everything is pretty much up for grabs plot wise and I am still just filling inky main character.
Basically, my main character is a well known celebrity, recruited during her college years she functions as an undercover agent investigating in places your average fed can't access. Ideally, she would be in the FBI, but I am unsure as to the likelihood of this. I'm not sure whether such an undercover operation would be undertaken by that agency; if not, which agency would bemost likely to have such a department?
The reason that I thought first of the FBI is that one of the main plotlines involves my MC
investigating a serial killer case. Which she keeps quiet, so that she isn't told to back off because of the dangers involved.
Ideally, my MC would have a position of authority with the agency, despite not having much facetime within it, since given the delicacy of her position very few people know of her involvement with the agency. One of my other characters is also an agent, who doesn't know that my MC is part of the same agency and so is suspicious of her. What sort of position would I be able to give my MC in order for her to rank higher than this other character? While the other character is still in a high enough position to partake in an undercover narcotics op.
How old could I realistically have these characters be? They would both be the same age and I had drafted them in as mid-twenties. Would this be possible given the training etc?
Finally, what happens when an undercover agent breaks cover? Are they simy sent back into the field in a different role not undercover? Or is there a different procedure after they are debriefed?
Basically, my main character is a well known celebrity, recruited during her college years she functions as an undercover agent investigating in places your average fed can't access. Ideally, she would be in the FBI, but I am unsure as to the likelihood of this. I'm not sure whether such an undercover operation would be undertaken by that agency; if not, which agency would bemost likely to have such a department?
The reason that I thought first of the FBI is that one of the main plotlines involves my MC
investigating a serial killer case. Which she keeps quiet, so that she isn't told to back off because of the dangers involved.
Ideally, my MC would have a position of authority with the agency, despite not having much facetime within it, since given the delicacy of her position very few people know of her involvement with the agency. One of my other characters is also an agent, who doesn't know that my MC is part of the same agency and so is suspicious of her. What sort of position would I be able to give my MC in order for her to rank higher than this other character? While the other character is still in a high enough position to partake in an undercover narcotics op.
How old could I realistically have these characters be? They would both be the same age and I had drafted them in as mid-twenties. Would this be possible given the training etc?
Finally, what happens when an undercover agent breaks cover? Are they simy sent back into the field in a different role not undercover? Or is there a different procedure after they are debriefed?