day. The deluge of evidence was almost dizzying. Which leads should they be chasing first? Who among Le Roux's crew was worth taking down?

Those questions were about to become very immediate. On April 17, the wires picked up a cryptic phone call between Le Roux and Doron Shulman, now in Hong Kong operating under the name Justin Collins.

"I wanted to confirm the rates for storage for AN," Shulman said. "Hong Kong for storage ninety per cubic meter."

"Okay, no problem," Le Roux said. "Things have arrived?"

"Yes, they did. I have to talk to the agent not to pay the release fee and confirm."

"Okay, no problem. It's confirmed."

The next day, Le Roux and Shulman spoke again. This time Shulman was calling with a complication:

JUSTIN: AN arrived.

PAUL: OK. Some problem?

JUSTIN: Some of the bags had runny liquid. I do not know if it's because they were pierced and absorbed water, absorbed moisture.

PAUL: Liquid? It should be dust.

JUSTIN: There are two types, but one or two bags are wet. Can it be condensation?

PAUL: Take one of the bags and test with H1, but not the ones that are wet. Get another bag.

JUSTIN: Okay.

PAUL: Then throw away the ones that are leaking so that they do not contaminate the others.

The Brazilian agents now realized what Shulman meant by "AN": ammonium nitrate. They knew enough about it to know that its commercialization in Brazil was tightly controlled by the military, because of its potential as a powerful explosive. Le Roux,