Ian Frisch

And he had the full weight of the FBI behind him in terms of other motherships and all these other assets out in the sea.

But, you know, he's in the pitch black ocean and the swells are coming and, you know, the water is coming over the gunwale.

And, you know, again, you couldn't leave any of the cocaine behind.

But Martin was able to do that.

and bring it all to Miami, and then deceive the cartel into taking custody of the drugs, and then a seizure was scheduled, and all the guys got arrested.

And that's just one story.

I mean, that's chapter one of the book.

I don't want to give away too much, but in the prologue, we kind of tease the reader with the climax of the book, where the book's villain, El Toro Negro, who is a money launderer for the North Coast cartel,

he sends a Sicario or a hitman to Martin's house to kill him after he realized that he wasn't, quote, Manny, the money launderer and smuggler that he said he was.

So Martin had a couple brushes with death, but that one was the most acute for sure.

But also very smart.

I mean, you know, the way like in Cocaine Cowboys, they would do handoffs with the car and they'd put the car on a tow truck to make sure that

It didn't seem like it was carrying drugs.

I mean, when you get up to the higher levels of the cartel, the way Martin did, how they transported cocaine, the kind of methodologies they were used to communicate, you know, all the kind of harebrained ideas that ended up working out in terms of smuggling it in, you know, he saw firsthand.

And it was remarkable.

And a lot of these guys, when you get up to the high levels of the cartel,

You know, they have college degrees, some of them studying in the United States.

You know, these are well-regarded members of Colombian society, and they use their wealth and their family background to kind of bolster the business model of being a drug kingpin.

And it worked out for them very well.

Well, yeah.