David Grann

He said at one point, somebody asked him after the novel came out, you know, a friend said, you know, this novel makes you look really bad.

And he said, well, it's, you know, it's fiction.

And she said, yeah, but for you to have those thoughts, you know, you must have had those thoughts.

And he said, well, anybody would think that is a fool.

And they create like almost like a checkboard.

I mean, you know, where they're like, OK, this is true.

This happened in Christian Bala's real life.

This didn't happen.

We can confirm this.

I mean, there's a scene of a theft in the novel.

It turned out that theft had really happened in real life.

One thing that is also present that is of suspicion, at least to Jacek, was that Chris, the narrator, not only confesses to murdering his girlfriend in the novel, the narrator in this novel gets away with it.

There's no repercussions, no stain from the murder, no penance, no punishment, no redemption, just free.

But he hints in several places that there was another murder of a man who had done something to him.

He never speaks about what it is, but it's kind of moved throughout.

So was there an actual other murder of a man that is being hinted at in the novel?

And could that have been Darius?

Even Jacek would acknowledge that the case was extraordinarily thin.

I mean, all they had at that point, well, they had the cell phone.

They knew that Christian Bala had somehow obtained Darius's cell phone within a few days and sold it on an internet site.