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Lado is pretty sure they’re telling the truth and had nothing to do with it.

Other than being stupid, lazy cowards and letting it happen.

These cabróns have families down in Mexico, SOP for anyone working for the BC on this side of the border—you have to have family where the BC can reach out and touch them.

Fuck job references—you want to guarantee good performance and loyalty you keep parents, brothers and sisters, even cousins in your pocket. Men who think nothing of risking their own lives would never think of risking their families’.

He tosses the bullwhip to the ground.

Two tall guys …

No, it’s not likely. How would the two gueros know the location of the stash house, the route the drivers take?

They couldn’t.

No, a tombe like this has to be an inside job. Maybe not these two pendejos, but someone inside.

“Cut them down,” he snaps.