. >> with a beach arm on the island off the coast called ambergris caye and the jungle compound nearjohn mcafee could still afford to live large and make an impression. >> i remember the night i arrived in belize. he invited me over to his home. and i walked in, and he was playing the piano. and it did have the feel of almost being in a bond movie, and this was your villain, in some ways. he didn't turn to me and say, "hello, mr. faber, " but it almost had that feel to it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i think he likes drama. i think he likes intense experiences. >> joshua davis is a contributing editor of wired magazine, and one time nbc news consultant. he got to know mcafee after he learned that belizian police had rated the millionaire's mainland compound, looking for illegal drugs. >> i heard about this raid on april 30th, when the belizian police force burst into his compound in the jungle, and that struck me as extraordinary. >> as it turned out, the police did not find any illegal drugs in mcafee's compound in that raid, though mcafee was charged with having an unlicensed gun. the fact the police