He’s just out of the shower when his phone rings. “Don’t hang up,” Minimum Ben Tompkins says. “What do you want?” “Someone wants you to know that it wasn’t his people who attacked your friend,” Ben says. “Tell that someone I’m going to kill him.” “Think about it,” Tompkins says. “He already has everything he wants there. Why would he risk that by killing a bunch of women?” He makes a point, Keller thinks. Barrera has already won in Juárez and basically taken the valley. But he says, “Marisol Cisneros challenged him on television.” “She challenged the Zetas, too,” Tompkins says. “Our friend
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