and when i asked them questions about max lapre and about the battle, they told me a lot. it was fascinating to hear, but there was this reticence this growing reticence. and one day my translator said to me they are afraid. and i said what are they afraid of? he said, well, there was this american tourist who was killed here. and i said american tourist? i've never heard of somebody who have been killed, an american who been killed in asmat? i said what was his name? he said the name i could recognize it. i said what? he said at five times. it took a while for me to realize this was the name that is very hard for an asmat to pronounce but it was michael rockefeller. i said, michael rockefeller,ay's these? he said he was this american who came your and all the villagers killed him and every asmat knows vil this. my father told me this. my he was from a village very closethis by and confessed to him that i was really here searching for what happened to michael rockefeller your for what happened to michael rockefeller. it is a long complex story and that is why the book is 9