It was time to move up the ladder. He sought work as a lookout. It wasn't 
easy. The alternative pharmaceuticals industry ran on a start, just-in-time 
delivery system, keeping inventories low so that there was never much evidence 
for the cops to seize. The snuff was grown in illicit matter compilers, 
squirreled away in vacant low-rent housing blocks, and carried by the runners 
to the actual street dealers. Meanwhile, a cloud of lookouts and decoys 
circulated probabilistically through the neighborhood, never stopping long 
enough to be picked up for loitering,
monitoring the approach of cops (or cops' surveillance pods) through huds in 
their sunglasses.