the dinghy, tied it to the canvas, and watched the body slowly dis- appear.

On the return trip to shore Marcus and Le Roux got lost and then trapped on a reef, and after an hour of battling the waves they pulled up on a resort beach several kilometers from Le Roux's property. Before catching a cab back to the truck, they ordered beers at a beachside bar.

Within weeks of this episode in late 2010, Le Roux and Marcus together carried out two more murders: Herbert Tan Tiu, the gun- runner arrested weeks earlier by Inspector R, and Chito, the man who tipped off the authorities to Tiu's gun stash. Each was lured, on separate occasions, to Le Roux's property—“his killing fields,” Marcus called it—with promises that he was being relocated to an island for his own safety. Once in the car, Le Roux and Marcus would handcuff their target and interrogate him about helping Smith steal gold. At the property, each man was forced at gun- point onto a boat. Once out to sea, Chito leaped into the water and Marcus shot him. Tiu was less cooperative, so Le Roux shot him with a taser and Marcus pushed him overboard. As Tiu pleaded for his life, Marcus ended it. This time, they remembered to bring an anchor to weigh down the body.

Le Roux's paranoia over the disloyalty of employees was in full bloom, and he began to see traitors everywhere he looked. Not that there wasn't a kernel of truth in his concern: Filipino employ- ees had always known that some of Le Roux's money was slipping out side doors. That was just part of doing business. While the foreigners he imported from America and Israel blundered around the country, largely naïve about Philippine culture beyond “bar girls” and government bribes, some local hires were quietly finding ways to exploit their boss. “Managing call centers was my job description,” one Filipina employee told me. “But he would give me odd jobs, like ‘Find me a nightclub to buy.’ I looked for so many properties for Paul. I earned money from that, but I didn't think it was stealing. I took commissions, which was only fair.” Le Roux, who seemed to be unable or unwilling to distinguish between