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-The Spycraft Manual, Barry Davies

I figure a fandom that write spy-thriller fiction might find some use

because I'm a fucking nerd, one thing that made me clap my hands and smile (metaphorically) when reading Smoke Gets In Your Eyes was the initiation scene.

Here I'm highlighting specific images with quotes pulled from mafia history book, Five Families: The Rise Decline and Resurgence of Amercia's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

“Do you know why you are here?” he would ask at the outset, and the candidate was expected to reply untruthfully, “No.” This charade was enacted because the induction was presumed to be a closely guarded secret to prevent leaks to law-enforcement investigators and outsiders about the identities of the family’s leaders and its members.

seen: the call and response structure that bosses like, for instance, Tony "Ducks" Corallo would use in his inductions

Pricking the finger to let blood was a fairly standard element; in many cases the trigger finger specifically

There are variations to the induction not seen in Smoke -- take for instance:

D’Arco nodded his assent and then his trigger finger was pricked and the saint’s picture burned. One of the men surrounding the table removed a towel that covered a gun and a knife lying on the table. “You live by the gun and the knife and you die by the gun and knife if you betray anyone in this room."

The induction ritual typically followed a basic structure, but specifcs would develop or fade over time in family branches. Kind of fascinating.

As the candidate held the bloody image aloft, someone put a match to it, and Tony Ducks directed the new member to repeat, “May I burn, may my soul burn like this paper, if I betray anyone in this family or anyone in this room.”

Other known variations of the oath include “If I betray my friends and our family, I and my soul will burn in hell like this saint.”, or "As burns this saint, so will burn my soul. I enter alive and I will have to get out dead."