Manuel Noriega

That's sort of why.

There is validity to it, you know?

But yeah, anyway, so I've got this really strong piece of material.

I know these documents exist.

We send out the book through Jose.

We send out the book to sort of historians, people who were regular civilians who were alive during the time, and then also some other like military regime generals under Noriega to fact check it.

Yeah.

So at this point, I'm leaving some details out here because I interviewed a crap load of people to build this book.

Most of it is Carlos.

Two-thirds of the book is written from Carlos' perspective.

One-third is written from my perspective, like hunting down these documents, going to Panama, like meeting all these people.

And I talk about everybody that I meet.

Yeah.

And originally I didn't even want to do that.

I didn't even want to do that originally.

Yep.

So, yeah.

Because I put Carlos' story in, like, what he told me word for word.

But in my chapters where, like, I'm the protagonist, I'm like, this is what Carlos told me, but I don't believe it.

This is what I believe and this is why.