world. You need to understand that we can reach you everywhere, even in Israel.” He warned that if Oz was ever disloyal to Le Roux again, they would kill him and his family. “You are not safe any- where,” he said.

The next day at the yacht club, Le Roux picked Oz up for the drive back to Manila, acting at first as if nothing had happened. When Oz confronted him about what he had just endured, Le Roux denied knowing anything about the incident. “I’m sorry about my partners,” he said. But before he dropped Oz back at his hotel, Le Roux left him with a warning of his own. “You may be thinking about quitting when you get back to Israel,” he said. “You’re very important to me because this pharmaceutical busi- ness is my bread and butter. I would suggest that you don’t want to deal with these guys. They will find you. Do whatever they say. Don’t go back and panic.”