Thanks to Tatiana and her connections, [Jackson] had done a lot of work for Russians when the Russians had still been around, and Russians loved cash. They weren’t oligarchs, just ordinary people (or at least he had liked to think they were), but even ordinary people if they were Russian made everything seem illegal, even when it wasn’t. Or perhaps it was.

Kate Atkinson, Death at the Sign of the Rook, pp. 137 – 138