to a number listed as Dave Smith. Inspector R began piecing to- gether the network behind the Ufuk, Bruce Jones’s murder, and Tiu, all encapsulated in a PowerPoint presentation he later sent me. He contacted the Australian authorities after learning of Le Roux’s Australian citizenship; they told him they, and the Ameri- cans, were also looking at Le Roux.

Tiu was released on bail and quickly disappeared. A judge let the case drop. Weeks later, a relative of the man who had tipped the police off to Tiu in the first place—whom Inspector R knew only as “Chito”—called to report that Chito, too, had gone miss- ing. Then Inspector R discovered that one of his own officers was under surveillance. Delivery people were showing up at his house with food he’d never ordered, he said, and people in his neighbor- hood had been offered money for information about him. After the police concluded that both Tiu and the tipster were likely dead, they dropped the case.

But Inspector R kept going. A year and a half after the DEA’s Kent Bailey had traveled to Manila and begged the authorities to put Le Roux under surveillance, Inspector R finally did so. He discovered that Le Roux rarely left the two houses he owned in Dasmariñas Village, one of which was running up electric bills five times what could be considered normal. He located an airstrip Le Roux had built in Batangas, along the coast of the South China Sea, where he seemed to be moving cargo in and out on small pri- vate planes. He discovered that Le Roux had also purchased a small island off of the eastern shore of the Philippines, facing the Pacific, which Inspector R believed was being used to test explo- sives. When the target shooter Michael Lontoc was murdered a year later, Inspector R was able to tie it back to Le Roux. “He was a friend of mine,” he said of Lontoc. “I used to shoot with him.” Lontoc’s mother’s name was on a warehouse owned by Le Roux, which Inspector R determined was stocked with airplane parts.

Inspector R continued exchanging information with foreign au- thorities, he said, including the FBI office in Miami and the Austra- lian Federal Police. He gathered tidbits of intelligence from wherever