The Appointment in Manaus - Pt. 4 (Tobiah Collins) (1/2) We'd been driving for a whole day. Smuggling is a very unpleasant job. Partially stressing, but most of the time really, really boring. I wouldn't have been doing it. The problem was, I had to. My father left my mother when I was six. My mother had to do everything herself and we were often short of money. I wanted to change that, so when I was fifteen, I found a job in a bar. Everything went right until the day my mother fell ill. The doctors said she will be alright if she gets the right treatment. The money I earned as a waiter started to be unpleasantly insufficient, even though I worked overtime and I stopped smoking. I started borrowing money from various people and soon I was drowning in debts. That's when Edgar Brown comes to the scene. I owed him about a hundred dollars. A month ago, he invited me to his office and offered me a deal. He had lack of reliable employees for one part of his business. If I accepted the job, he would me twice as much as had been my previous salary. I realized it was the only way to pay my mother's treatment and the debts, so I accepted his offer. We were advancing very slowly. Nash was driving and Liam wasn't very talkative, so there was literally nothing to do. Mr. Brown said that I'll break in with them and after I get a driving licence for lorries, I'll get a sidekick and smuggle cocaine with him. In fact, I didn't really mind that Liam didn't talk to me. He always treated me as a kid. That was understandable as he was about thirty years older, but it was still quite annoying. This one was again too long, so it's divided in two parts. I'd be grateful for any corrections :)