said. "For about a year of my life I felt like a traveling salesman. I had to go to Detroit three times to get them to open up a case on Le Roux." Everywhere he and Brill went, they'd hear ten reasons why the case wasn't worth pursuing. "How I didn't assault some- body is beyond me," Bailey said. " "Internet? Good luck with that.'"

Slowly he and Brill coaxed other offices into taking on pieces of the case. "I had many conversations with her, saying you've got to let some of this stuff go, you cannot do it all yourself," Bailey said. "You've got to concentrate on the command control at the top. Give this to Detroit, trust they are going to do it. Give this to New- ark, trust that they are going to do it. Mobile. Los Angeles. And most of them did exactly that."

For the first time, they were able to obtain active wiretaps— known as Title III, or "T3" wires—on four RX Limited phone numbers. Monitoring them meant even more work for Brill, who alternated between listening in on the conversations and chasing down the leads they generated. Most of what she heard were at- tempts by low-level operatives in the United States to recruit more pharmacists into the network.

But they hoped that with the right pressure Le Roux himself might slip up and make a call to one of the phones. They focused their attention on Florida, where RX Limited had its only physical locus in the United States, just north of Miami. It was a small rented office, sandwiched between a beauty parlor and a Hertz car rental on a busy avenue in Miami Gardens. There they identified an Israeli named Omer Bezalel who was directing Le Roux's at- tempts to keep the pharmaceutical business flowing in the States.

Brill organized a surveillance team and set them up at the Miami Gardens address. In addition to Bezalel, they spotted a taller white man operating under the identity of Robert McGowan. Together with Bezalel, he began opening shell companies and bank accounts tied to the address. At first they assumed the man was McGowan himself. McGowan's name had shown up on everything from the