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Part One: The Family That Stole Malaysia

Behind the Bastards

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Alan Quarter - The Man Who Wants to Be Alan Quarter

He's one of those rich kids who drop out of fancy college and just, like, join the military or something because he just got so much fucking energy. He really has this, like, he's bad at school. But he's devouring all of these cheap, kind of pulp-fiction novels that are coming out about fighting pirates and fighting bandits in India. And he grows up desperately wanting to have a life of adventure in the far east.

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