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The story reads a little like a Graham Greene novel reimagined for the Narcos audience. The protagonist looks like John Waters playing Leslie Phillips playing Alan Whicker. The setting’s exotic, the supporting cast extraordinary, the details bizarre. But for Colin Armstrong, the ordeal of the past four days must have felt all too real, and all too scary.