Paul Rosolie

You're not.

I said, is he okay?

He said, is he okay?

He said he took a shotgun straight to the chest.

And they're like, he's dead.

I said, okay.

And so I had to go out to dinner and not show the guests anything and just smile and laugh and talk to them about whatever and keep that in, which felt very, very difficult to do.

And so what happened, as you said, the threat level escalated and we didn't know it.

The narcos had come in and started realizing that there's so much wilderness here that they can operate and there's no police.

And then when we flew the drone, they got mad.

So we realized this, we communicated with the police and they said, oh yeah, these are narcos.

Now we realize this is part of the serious drug mafia.

And then I had gone back with the incident that you're referring to at the end of the book, I had gone back to New York, again, to speak to donors, to try and get this work to continue.

And you know how it works.

We're at the station and then you go to that little logging town and then there's a road.

And so our pickup truck had come in on the road and JJ was supposed to come down, get in the truck and drive back to the city.

J.J.

was on the river and went, I forgot I was supposed to get more stuff at the sea.

He goes, you know, I'll go tomorrow.

He went back up and he sent the boat driver down and told our driver, Percy, who was waiting with the pickup truck, he said, J.J.