Faces Gun Raps over Seized Galil Rifles,” The Philippine Star, October 9, 2010.

175 Lontoc had been driving: This and other details are from the Philippine Na- tional Police case file on the murder of Michael Lontoc.

175 deported back to their home country: Interview with Mar Supnad.

175 the remaining cases . . . tried and convicted in absentia: People of The Philip- pines v. Burne.

175 Joe Frank Zuñiga had been part of the syndicate: According to this version, Zuñiga had been the conduit for law enforcement bribes before the Ufuk, but this time had attempted to play both sides, keeping half the bribe money. I heard no other reference to Zuñiga working for the organization from law enforcement or former employees.

177 The Tiu case started: Details in this account derive primarily from Inspector R, obviously, but I have cross-checked them with official PNP reports supplied to me, as well as with a scattering of local press; testimony from USA v. Hunter, Document 580, April 5, 2018, at 520; and copies of correspondence between Inspector R and the Australian Federal Police.

178 knew only as “Chito”: Having seen various spellings of the nickname in Philippine reports and U.S. court documents, I’ve elected to use the one given to me by Inspector R.

178 an airstrip Le Roux had built: PNP surveillance photos of the airstrip.

179 The general didn’t mince words: When I contacted him by phone while in the Philippines, the general declined an interview.

180 announced that Nash had been kidnapped: “Police Says American ‘Ab- ducted’ in Olongapo,” Subic Bay News, May 4, 2014.

181 immigration violations: John Nash official charge sheet, Philippine National Bureau of Investigation, May 6, 2014.

181 Desmond, too, had disappeared: “Judge Orders Arrest of Ocean Adventure Exec,” Subic Bay News, November 6, 2014.

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184 Doron Shulman, who had purchased two houses: Information on Shulman derives from HKSAR v. Shulman.

184 specializes in undercover work: See also, for example, “Duvdevan Unit,” IDF official description, idf.il/en/minisites/duvdevan-unit/; Yaniv Kubovich, “PTSD Plagues the Israeli Special Forces That Inspired Fauda,” Haaretz, April 22, 2018; “Profiling Israel’s Elite Undercover Unit Duvdevan,” Middle East Monitor, October 12, 2015. For a comprehensive look at Israeli military units and assassinations, see Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First (Random House, 2018).

184 looking for a way out: Interviews with Moran Oz and a childhood friend. “Friends in the neighborhood said Moran wants to get out of the company, but he can’t,” the friend told me he heard at the time. “I understood he was mixed up with some criminal, but nobody knew who.”