to its endpoint. And she had read his emails, too. For Brill, it soon felt like they were talking as peers. "I don't know that I would call it fun," she said. "But it was somebody I could actually talk to who knew what I was talking about the whole time. Where I didn't have to explain." Every question she'd had about RX Limited could now be answered by the man who had created it. They dove deep into the technical aspects of Le Roux's networks: the email servers, the affiliate website back ends, the thousands of Web do- mains. After a couple hours, Brill had filled the notepad and was writing on its cardboard backing.

Over the course of late 2012 and early 2013, Brill returned to interview Le Roux several more times. She and Bailey had hoped to utilize him as an asset, to help lure Moran Oz, Alon Berkman, and others out of Israel. But the 960 agents who controlled Le Roux had specific targets in their sights, Hunter and the North Korean meth groups, and declined to make him available to help Brill round up her own. Le Roux was permitted to send only oc- casional communications to the likes of Oz and Berkman, just enough to keep up the charade that he was at large.

After Hunter was busted in the fall of 2013, Bailey and Brill fi- nally got a chance to put Le Roux to work. Brill found him to be an enthusiastic partner in setting up a new ruse. "He had made up his mind that he was going to do as much as he could now that he was in the situation he was in," Brill said. "And information was his currency."

This time Le Roux wouldn't have Colombian partners to dangle in front of the targets. He would have to use cleverness and cajol- ing to lure Oz and Berkman into a trap. With RX Limited barely functional, first he would have to convince them that he was bring- ing it back to life.

On orders from Le Roux when he was still a free man, Oz and Berkman had shuttered the Tel Aviv office in 2012. They spent months selling off furniture and equipment. From Brazil, Le Roux