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Radcliffe has written a book, an entertaining chronicle of capers, a journey that begins as an illicit obstacle course on Merseyside, then adds elements of psychology and play-acting, and gains momentum and legitimacy as it progresses. Radcliffe’s journey continues up service staircases and across rooftops to financial institutions in London and Europe to the mansions of dodgy geezers in the far east. There are plenty of hairy moments, near misses and some actual tumbles along the way, including a fall from a roof in Romania. She was doing a surveillance job, watching a cafe across the street from the roof of her hotel, when she slipped, landing on a narrow ledge. Any distance either side and she would have fallen four storeys, but she escaped with bumps and bruises. This is a rip-roaring read, full of derring-do and sometimes comic, often foolhardy bravery. [Jenny] sounds an absolute hoot, and her book is never anything less' - Daily Mail Right, photos finished and it’s into the waiting car, a Tesla, for the short journey to central London to do the interview. Radcliffe’s husband doesn’t like Teslas, she says. And that’s the only thing she’ll tell me about her spouse, or her family. There are children, but she won’t say how many, let alone names, ages, anything like that. “There’s no reason to know about the family.” Fair enough, it’s not about them. But it is about her. She tells me she will be 50 this year, lives in the north-west … and that’s kind of it. “The details don’t need to be out there.” But she is very happy to talk about her work, which is really interesting, and I think you get a good sense of her through it.

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Anyway, my (hollow, let’s be honest) threat is what prompted her to say: “Do I look like someone to mess with?” but then she laughs – I think I’m all right, for now. Later, she’ll tell me there’s plenty of banter in her work and her world; she’s fine with it, so long as it’s well meaning. “But you don’t want to be the person when I choose to take offence, because if it’s coming from a malicious place it will be dealt with accordingly, do you know what I mean?” Understood. Sitting in the atrium, she tells me that shared buildings come with their problems. “You’re only as secure as the company that is least secure; public space provides a real challenge.” Social engineering is the perfect solution: all the fun of playing the criminal without the consequences. And the tattoos make sense now; the angel’s feather is bigger, but the devil one is still very much there. This is Jenny insider's account of how her working-class upbringing, northern sense of humour and femininity in a male-dominated industry all helped her to become one of the most sought-after social engineers in the world. I calculate that at a conservative estimate, the number of buildings I have in some way infiltrated is in the hundreds, most of them with the full permission of the owners. While the majority of these jobs were not remarkable, some of them stand out because of the location, events or people I met on the way.

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This is a rip-roaring read, full of derring-do and sometimes comic, often foolhardy bravery. [Jenny] sounds an absolute hoot, and her book is never anything less' – Daily Mail