17: The Women of the War on Drugs: “They Didn't See Us Coming"

They joined the same institution, in the same era, in a world that was almost entirely male. But Aimee Lisle and Natalie Reynolds took very different paths. Lisle became one of Britain's top surveillance officers, tailing drug couriers, planting listening devices, and spending months secretly building a corruption case against a colleague she passed in the corridor every day. The target was Gatwick Airport's highest-seizing customs officer. As an intelligence officer at Heathrow Airport, Reynolds stopped hundreds of passengers, profiled flights from Bogota, and helped target the couriers bringing Colombian cocaine into the UK. So when her husband was posted to Bogota as a drugs liaison officer, she didn't just go along for the ride, she learned to drive defensively through a city still shaking from the cartel wars, and was trained by the SAS to grab a wounded bodyguard's weapon and shoot her way out if it came to it.Just don’t ask her to lob any grenades.Two careers. Two completely different versions of what it meant to work in drug law enforcement. Both of them would do it all again.These are the Narco Warriors.Insiders: Aime Lisle & Natalie Reynolds