Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager.
To Redmond O’Hanlon, 39, New York City cop and Shakespeare scholar, $16,000 represents four years’ pay—or a new home for his family of five children. Last week O’Hanlon faced the decision of his life.