Toby Muse is an award-winning filmmaker, foreign correspondent and the author of the critically-acclaimed Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels.

He lived in Colombia for 15 years, reporting on the endless drug war and developing unparalleled access to the drug cartels.

He has reported from the front lines of the conflicts in Colombia, Iraq and Syria, embedded with soldiers, rebels and drug traffickers. His work has appeared in the The New York Times, CNN, BBC, The Guardian, The Atlantic and others. He is currently at work on another book, podcast and documentary.

“Cocaine is like a virus. It gets into the bloodstream of a town and acts as a vortex that sucks everyone into it.”