The floors were paved with mellow red tiles filched from an old farmhouse and the ceilings were beamed with jarrahwood.

The special edition Alfa also gets an exclusive, bright red paintjob called Rosso 8C.

Cerda moved to Chicago and worked at a series of bars and clubs: the Orbit Room, the Paradise Club, even a stint at Limelight, where he supplemented his earnings as a barback by performing as Nina Hagen in one of the cages.

The most interesting device for tapping a telephone, though, is still the old reliable “harmonica bug,” which was invented in the early sixties by an electronics wizard from Lower Manhattan, Emanuel Mittleman.