The necessity of efficiently and officially disappearing has become dramatically more important. At the same time a very real dilemma exists: as a practical matter, those with enough money and smarts to orchestrate their disappearance usually cannot do so because closing existing businesses cuts off needed cash flow, and moving away to start over is never feasible if the plan is to start another identical business. Investigators, both private and public, will pierce that veil instantly. This has been the Gordian knot facing people in search of new identities. Traditional new-identity instructions mostly failed to appreciate this dilemma. Modern, high-tech developments have dramatically changed the new identity business, but either by design or purpose, no one is talking about the financial element. Most of the information out there was gathered 15 years ago and is either much too difficult to implement or is impractical, given modern computers. It also does not reflect the truth that government agencies do not like people who assume new identities and have changed the ground rules dramatically. Of course, what follow is for academic study only. As one attorney told me while being interviewed for this book, “If for some reason the government wants to pick you up and lock you away, there is always a law that will allow it to do so. There is absolutely no way the average citizen—which we all are—can live a perfectly legal life any more.”

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