Hi, this is Steve Martin.

You might know me from among other things, my TV show Only Murders in the Building, where

I play a guy who records podcasts.

In real life, I'm a guy that made an audiobook.

It's called So Many Steves, afternoons with Steve Martin.

I created it with my friend, New Yorker writer, Adam Gopnik, and you can find it at pushkin.fm

and wherever audiobooks are sold.

Pushkin.

Havana, Cuba, in the fall of 2016.

The island's longtime ruler, Fidel Castro, an implacable foe of the United States has just died.

What upheavals, what power struggles his passing might set in train are of considerable interest

to America's intelligence agencies.

In a pleasant neighborhood of the capital, one of the CIA's agents has returned home for the evening.

Fairly certain in the knowledge that Cuban operatives have him under surveillance.

And then, the American feels as if he's been hit by a beam of sound.

Young and fit at the time of the incident, the agent eventually seeks medical attention

with the clinic inside the US Embassy.

He's been having headaches with acute pain in one ear, and his hearing in general isn't what it was.

Two other officers soon say they too remember strange, sharp, and disorienting sounds in their homes around the same time.

A few more reports come in.

The wife of one Embassy official says she heard a strange sound, and looking out the window saw a van rush by,

was a Cuban operative of the wheel.

...