Monica Padman

And then finally he says, okay, all right, come with your, you can come with your partner.

And then he says, no Colombians, right?

Because he was one of the guys that was paying off a lot of the Colombians.

So he knew about the corruption.

So if I see anybody who's even looks Colombian.

the deal is off.

Even if they brought you, Monica, you might have stood too brown.

So we're sitting there thinking like, head of security, the Cali, he wants to meet us an hour outside of Cali, telling us to come alone, telling me to come alone.

And not to bring any Colombians.

And we're thinking like, dude, this could be a trap.

This could be an ambush.

We weren't sure what to expect.

We're not even supposed to leave the base.

And then here we are going to go meet this counterintelligence officer in the middle of a cane field an hour outside of Cali.

So it was pretty hairy.

I think we outlined that pretty well in the book, how we felt.

Because honestly, we were pretty scared.

It's funny when we're there.

Everything's funny now.

At the time, it wasn't.