not far from the airport. Oz and his two friends arrived in the morning and met up with the bodyguards, who accompanied Oz to a distant part of the lobby while his friends waited at the en- trance. After a half hour, Oz texted them to say that his boss hadn't shown up yet. When the friends checked in a while later, Oz didn't respond.

Worried, they decided to look for him. They found him at an- other entrance, surrounded by several men and one woman. Oz explained that they were plainclothes police officers, that they'd shown up looking for him and wanted to take him to the station to ask questions. The bodyguards seemed to have slipped away.

The officers asked the friends to accompany them to the station, and the three men climbed into the back of an old unmarked car. Oz seemed terrified that it was another of Le Roux's ruses. "Look, they don't wear police uniforms," Oz said to his friends in He- brew. "I hope it's not one of his tricks."

He was relieved when they arrived at the Bucharest police station—at least it appeared not to be a Le Roux hit in disguise. His local friend found him a Romanian lawyer, while the other one went to their hotel to retrieve their passports, hoping the whole thing could be cleared up by the evening. After the friend returned, the lawyer told him that Oz had been arrested on behalf of an American agency.

"Go back to Israel, meet Moran's parents, and tell them to get a good lawyer," the attorney told him. "Because they are going to move him to the U.S. for a trial."

Oz spent the next several months in an overcrowded Romanian jail, housed with seven other inmates in a stifling seven-by-ten-foot cell. One of his cellmates had a heart attack and died. Oz's family hired a local lawyer to fight his extradition, but the hearings were all conducted in Romanian, and Oz often had little idea what was happening. His only contact with the American government had been through Kimberly Brill, from the DEA, who briefly showed up to question him after his arrest.

More than anything, he was baffled that the United States had