This is CBS, I Am The World. I'm John Matzher. I'm with Brett Forest, the Wall Street Journal

correspondent, whose notebook is Lost Sun, an American family trapped inside the FBI's

Secret Wars. Terry and Bill Riley, last year from their son, Bill Riley, June 24, 2015.

That forest travels there in December of 17 to Oxford, Michigan and has a conversation

with the family that engages him. Why? And that is one of the compelling subplots of this

book, Brett, because your own travels as a young man were equally adventurous and risky.

You traveled to Africa and you traveled to Russia. You spent a lot of time in Russia. So

what were you thinking about after you left mom and dad and over the next year about

Billy Riley and his adventure? Well, for me personally, John, it was always a sort of

dual calculation here. One was as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal with professional

responsibilities of trying to unearth interesting stories and important stories to tell, but

also filing regular stories and publishing regularly and meeting demands of my editors.

I'm always looking at the story at least in the early stages as I was trying to figure

out if this was something worth doing if it's something that the journal should do. But

on the other hand, or in addition, I had a great personal attachment or interest in it

because Billy had gone missing in Russia. I had first gone to Russia in 2002 looking

for a sort of new adventure, a new chapter in my life. And my travels there diverted my

own path. I ended up living in Moscow for five years. I ended up living later in Kiev.

And I've been working at that time in those two countries for about 15 years. And it

developed a lot of friendships, a lot of professional contacts and traveled widely in both

countries. So the fact that Billy had gone missing there in connection to the war between

these two countries was something that was almost irresistible for me. Yes, quite convincing

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