Taylor, Keller thinks now, virtually drove me into Tío Barrera’s waiting arms. There was nowhere else to go. He and Tío made a lot of busts together. They even “took down”—a euphemism for “killed”—Don Pedro Áviles, gomero número uno. Then DEA and the Mexican army sprayed the poppy fields with napalm and Agent Orange and destroyed the old Sinaloan opium trade. Only, Keller thinks, to watch Tío create a new and vastly more powerful organization out of the ashes. El Federación. The Federation. You start, Keller thinks, by trying to cut out a cancer, and instead you help it to metastasize, spread
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