It's January 2003. Bill Murray is on a plane hunting down a new top secret contact.

The first stop on that trip was Kuala Lumpur because he was giving a speech at the

Organization of Islamic Conference in Malaysia.

Bill is a senior officer in the CIA and in 2003 he's the station chief in

Paris, one of the top men in Europe and he's on an urgent mission. He has to

find this high-level source and so he arrives in Kuala Lumpur. And I just missed

him. No luck. By the time you take a flight from Washington to Japan to we have to

transit through Singapore and then up to Malaysia and etc. I got there before

he left but I was never able to get into the hotel that he was in. Then he

left shortly after I arrived I think the next morning or something he left.

The source was off this time to Jordan. And by the time I arrived in Jordan

the middle of the night people met me at the airport and said he's going on to

Cairo. So Bill gets another flight to Cairo and arrived there again in the

middle of the night and tried to figure out how I was going to get in contact

with this guy. And he's in his hotel working out how he's going to make

contact with this source when he finds out that he isn't in Cairo at all. In

fact he's gone to Shamel's Shake, the holiday resort on the Red Sea. And I couldn't

go to Shamel's Shake because it's too small and it's just too many people

would have recognized me and said what the hell's he doing here. Bill had

spent too long roaming around the Middle East to be inconspicuous and anyway Bill

is quite a conspicuous person. He's a spy. Yes, but he's not exactly in the James

Bond mode. He's a big man with graying hair and unkind people might say he's

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