The Notorious Mr. Bout: When he was arrested in two thousand and eight in Thailand as a result of a U.S. government sting operation, the career of internationally known arms
smuggler Viktor Bout came to a decisive end. Veiled by the obscurity of post-Soviet Russia, Bout had built an empire of aerial delivery so vast he was called “the merchant of
death” and was even the subject of a Hollywood film. In sharp contrast to the widely known, super-villain persona, however, was another Bout: a philosophical businessman
who simply enjoyed travel, his work, his family, and filming it all with his video camera.
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