Mountains of The Moon
Patrick and Ira If ever I have had adventures in my life I must without a doubt include my friend Ira Wald as a partner in crime. Ira and I spent four years together in Bolivia and during that time we used our investigative creativity to justify some ventures out into the far corners of the country. There was almost no where Ira and I were not willing to go. Both of us thirsted for new experiences and a chance to glimpse different parts of a wild land. Ira truly loved his job. In the agency he is known as a Diversion Investigator. Domestically this typically means they investigate corrupt doctors and pill mills yet in Bolivia his mission was different. Ira was tasked at identifying companies that chose to use their manufacturing as a basis to buy chemicals that were later diverted into the production of cocaine. Bolivia is a source country for cocaine production and thus obtaining needed chemicals for the conversion of coca leaves to the white powder was essential. The i