[1] He was inspired to become a journalist by reading the adventures of Tintin[2] at a young age and after meeting Jorge Semprún – an author, Nazi concentration camp survivor and scenario writer for Costa Gavras – during his final year at the Lycée Mistral of Avignon.

[9] In the 6 February 2021 edition of Marianne, philosopher Robert Redeker writes: "The real-life novel of Pablo Daniel Magee, breathtaking like a crime novel, moving like a love novel, political like a spy novel and educational like a historical novel installs in the European imagination a character worthy of a place next to Antigone".

[10] In his book, Magee is the first investigator to establish the presence of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara in Paraguay on 3 October 1966, based on Top Secret documents of the Archive of Terror and testimonies of first-hand witnesses such as Joel Filartiga, whose role was interpreted by actor Anthony Hopkins in Hollywood biopic One Man's War.

During those years, he shared film sets with actors Anthony Hopkins, Benicio del Toro, Emily Blunt, Hugo Weaving, Jack Black, Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, and Robert Downey Jr..

[17] Magee reported in a televised interview that Sir Anthony Hopkins told him about the dictatorship in Paraguay and his interpretation of human rights activist Joel Filartiga, when they met on the set of Wolfman by Joe Johnston,[18] which also encouraged the young writer to study paraguayan history.

Magee also collaborated for this work with British musician John Altman, film score composer of Titanic by James Cameron, James Bond: Golden Eye and No Time to Die, or Monty Python’s Life of Brian; composer for Barry White, Michael Jackson, Prince or Björk; and musician with the bands of Sting, Amy Winehouse, Bob Marley, Chet Baker, Jimi Hendrix and many others, as he describes in his memoirs Hidden Man: My many musical lives.

In 2018, he collaborated with Canadian filmmaker Jorge Diaz de Bedoya to develop the scenario for the feature film El Supremo Manuscrito,[21] which plunges the spectator into the corrupt world of contemporary Paraguay in search of the last manuscript of writer Augusto Roa Bastos, stolen by art traffickers.