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"And that person is here in Maestro?"

"We think so We think that person is Rafael Salazar"

Griffin felt the shock of surprise Surely not possible But--"We’ll get into that in a ain What do you know about him?"

"We heard last summer from the Spanish National Police--the Cuerpo National de Policía--that Rafael Salazar was a person of interest to them He’s part of a powerful Salvadoran fa trade They spread their business into Spain, prienerations back, and now they could be branching into the US The Spanish police alerted us Salazar was on his way here, to Stanislaus, for at least a year That jibed closely with our own investigation, and it rang big alar to Stanislaustheir influence to the local Maras?"

She nodded "And the establishment of new sources for the his head "Salazar is a world-fa trafficker, too? It sounds nuts Why would he do it? It ht he’d be playing guitar to prisoners for the rest of his natural life No more fame, adoration fro he’s also involved with his faanization MS-13 here at Stanislaus? I can’t get my brain around it"

"Neither could I, at least for a while, but our infors to the Lozano criinally out of San Salvador, as I said At least three generations of extortion, weapons, drugs, prostitution, you nah up in the Mara Salvatrucha in El Salvador The Spanish police told us they didn’t believe Maria Rosa had any involvement with the criminal part of the family enterprise, and that like her sons, she was a fine ood deal of his tirowing up His mother sent hipin of the Lozano operation in El Salvador So the Spanish police have watched him for years now But nothin’ has stuck yet"

"I understand Salazar’s brother invited him here," Griffin said "Is Hayman involved, too?"

She shook her head "To the best of our knowledge, Dr Hayman has never dealt with the Lozano family, except, of course, his mother, Maria Rosa She seeet, he never lived with his mother, has never met any of his relatives in San Salvador, so far as we know"

Griffin nodded "Twins, separated as boys Look what happened to the two of thes, but the sae Dr Hayman has no clue who and what his twin brother is? And his ree with you, and so doan eye on Dr Hay suspicious at all, and his name hasn’t appeared anywhere it shouldn’t And so, Griffin, this is why I was sent here undercover No one outside the DEA kneas here, not even local law enforcement"

Griffin spoke his fear aloud "Anna, he wants Delsey very badly"

"It bothered me as well until I realized she was probably only his obsession du jour Since his arrival in Septeraduate students, and after a while, he et Stanislaus to let you in?"

"Three of us agents applied, with the help of soency, but I was the only one to pass the audition"

He gave her a long look, nodded slowly "What were you supposed to do exactly, search Salazar’s house, his office? Or lie low and listen?"

"Maurie’s Diner is gossip central, the perfect place to pick up random information and news I know about every extraot a state-of-the-art alarettin’ around that, and I did try But I did have occasional access, since he invites students to his house But I could rarely look around alone; he’d have noticed

"Finally in Deceh to find a hidden drawer in his desk with records of large foreign bank transactions, and this was enough to get a federal warrant for electronic surveillance