turn informer

Shannon’s description of the ruthlessly transactional Le Roux recalibrating his new reality — “eyes twinkling like a computer rebooting” — to turn informer aboard the plane from Liberia, is priceless.

Omar, an Oscar finalist for Best Foreign Film, unfolds from the vantage of a young Palestinian arrested after helping to kill an Israeli soldier, and pressured mercilessly by his captors to turn informer.

The judge also noted that Mr. Massino’s willingness to turn informer “has almost certainly caused numerous other members of organized crime to cooperate with the government.”

She was not going to turn informer--a name more hateful then, when blood-money was common, than now!

She would not turn informer against him, whom she had chosen in her folly--except to save life.