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Marta, who had been in India for four years and knew how things worked there, applied for a work visa on Ned's behalf. He was allowed to work for her while it was pending, and with the Indian bureaucracy the way it was, it would take years before any official in New Delhi would even lay eyes on his application let alone do any checking. Part of Ned's job was to do the company's accounting, a fact that made him laugh every time he thought about it, since it was a fear of living out his days as an accountant that had led him to a life of crime.
It was a good life, and Ned felt freer than he ever had before. But he could not put his past entirely behind him. He read the news from Mexico online every day. He also found out that he was wanted in the United States not just for David Kuzik's murder but also for that of someone named Hauser, an undercover ATF agent who the media reported had lost his life after he heroically infiltrated the notorious Tortured Souls biker club. Ned smiled to himself at what a badass serial killer everyone thought he was, even though he had not killed any of those people. He knew intellectually that one day they might track him down, but with the FBI and ATF and all those other acronyms half a world away, he couldn't sweat it. He'd been through too much to worry about what could happen now. Instead of feeling guilty about his past or worrying about his future, he instead chose to enjoy his present.
Some weeks after Ned arrived in India, CNN.com reported that the Jalisco Cartel had been absorbed by the Sinaloa Cartel a few days after El Cubano's severed head was lobbed over the fence of the yard of the prestigious private school his children attended.
Ned searched the Internet almost every day for signs of Yrigoyen. Almost four months after he arrived in Goa, Ned finally came across a video on YouTube called “El cuento de Chango y El Guero.” In it, a man wearing a plastic Homer Simpson mask sat on what appeared to be a bench in a city square. The place seemed not quite tropical, but warm, like the Carolinas. The architecture was old and classic, predominantly made of white stone. The sound recording on the video was terrible and difficult to make out. The man spoke in Spanish.
“Guero, I want to thank you,” he said. “Come here,” he said to the camera. The camera moved, as though being set upon a table or something, and a boy appeared from behind it, wearing a Bart Simpson mask. “We left Arizona, left Mexico, and now we are very, very far away. I cannot tell you the name of the country or city we are in, but the people here are nice and not violent at all. Thank you for the money, thank you for my freedom and, most of all, thank you for my son. I hope you are still alive.” It ended with both father and son waving at the camera. Ned noticed the boy was missing the baby finger on his left hand.
Ned looked at the name of the person who posted the video. It was “ElKaibilyHijo.” The video had nineteen views and only one comment. It read, in Spanish, “Is it Uruguay?”
Ned smiled.
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Dead Biker : Inside the Violent World of the Mexican Drug Cartels
Copyright © 2012 by Jerry Langton
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Originally published by John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. in both print and EPub editions: 2012
First published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd in this EPub edition: 2013
First HarperCollins Publishers Ltd EPub Edition JULY 2013 ISBN: 9781443427227
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Jerry Langton has written for The Hamilton Spectator and Maclean’s, and worked for The Daily News in New York. He is a freelance writer whose articles appear in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and National Post. Langton’s the author of the bestseller Fallen Angel: The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick in the Canadian Hells Angels; Showdown: How the Outlaws, Hells Angels, and Cops Fought for Control of the Streets; Biker: Inside the Notorious World of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang; and Rage: The True Story of a Sibling Murder.
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