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SNOWING IN BALI

put the money like 100 per cent in their pocket. ‘What sort of car you want to buy?’ ‘Oh, the black one because it’s beautiful,’ they start to mentalise, see success. I read The Secret, it’s like that. Mentalisation, this is the big truth of the world; you are what you think; you attract for yourself what you think.

This is like brainwashing. Two days or three days to wash the brain, to make the guy really confident and then he goes to Bali, no worries.

Andre also bought them a pair of good shoes, clothes – usually a standard Polo shirt, blue or white – and a standard black bag, so they’d just blend in with the thousands of real tourists. He habitually watched shows like Banged Up Abroad and Behind Bars, to spy clues from others’ mistakes, or details of police busts. Teaching his horses as many tips as possible was his goal.

He’d been headhunted to work with Colombian cartels moving tonnes of cocaine, but aside from the draconian penalties if busted trafficking tonnes, he didn’t agree with their philosophy of sending dozens of untrained, peasant horses – who usually spoke no English and had never been on a plane – sure that a percentage would crash and burn, but with this simple collateral damage built into their business plan. They were numbers, not lives, and Andre preferred trying to make every horse a winner.

Can I explain a difference between mule and horse. Mules are not like the kind of people who work for me, people who come to Bali to enjoy life; this is a real horse. But mules, not horses, mules are really, really desperate people. Really poor people, don’t speak English, and they fall like flies … this type of business is like Colombian business, Peruvian business; they send many mules to fly, maybe they send five, they know

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