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Thirty years ago, I fell in love with Croatia’s rugged shoreline the moment I saw the crystal-clear waters.I grew up with sandy lakesides instead of tropical waters, so spending hours watching sea cucumbers, small fish, and crabs felt like nothing I’d ever seen or known before.I’ve visited Croatia almost every…

For more than two decades, Scott Payne lived in the shadows. As an undercover FBI agent, he infiltrated violent biker gangs and white-supremacist networks. These were criminals who trusted him, laughed with him, and would have killed him if they knew his true identity.Payne joined the FBI in 1998, having…