I try my hardest to play it cool through an excruciating dinner with upper-class gangsters. There are smiles and polite conversation about their monotonously boring lives and over-primped wives as they guzzle down overly priced food and act like they like their present company. Obviously, that’s what they are, yet everyone is living the fake normal life out here, and it’s all behind closed doors.

We are sat in one of this town’s most prestigious restaurants, surrounded by opulent ...