Manuel Noriega

I meet him.

Um, I'm actually flying back to Dublin, Ireland, like that very day.

It was like the last day I could do it.

He really liked it because time, but,

official handover, sorry, official contract signing.

And then he sent me the digital version so I could like take them with me and print them out and stuff.

So I fly back to Ireland.

I'm there for a couple of weeks starting up like a new investigative book.

But then I have these documents and I start sort of sifting through them, translating them.

There's like 500 pages.

It takes so long.

I then fly.

I have a little bit of money to fly to Rome.

From Ireland and I get this free apartment from like a family friend and I live in this apartment for one month literally just like locked myself in like deciphering these documents and these letters and there's also like these human rights reports and there's a lot of like articles from like the New York Times and like the Washington and from Newsweek and from DC and and basically just like outlining the story from.

1971 all the way like 1987 that's like the area that it covered so I do that I spent like a month just like solely doing that in Rome having a little bit of fun too but literally just mostly just like in this apartment and then uh then I write what is now like the the manuscript like the the working draft of the book I um send it to the guys everybody that can like speak English everybody reads it they already like it

And then, like, two days later, Carlos dies.

He drops dead of a heart attack.

Whoa.

Two days later.

So he never got a chance to read the book, right?