8 It didn’t take long for Martin to find Frik Versfeld in the web of information at his fingertips. Once the South African had emerged from the field hospital at the mine, he took his payout and trained for the elite security services. There were images of Frik in the mountains of Pakistan alongside members of the Black Storks, in Russia with the Alpha Group and on civilian training exercises run by ex-US Navy SEALs. After working in several war zones, he re-entered the mining world in Brazil, running the security operation at Mina de Fidalgo. There were suppressed police reports in the archives, complaints of brutal treatment of indigenous workers, and several women had turned up dead after being summoned to his lodgings. Martin clicked away from the disturbing images, pushing aside his