Chapter 14The Montoya brothers were once described as a “two-man criminal plague” in a Chihuahua, Mexico newspaper. Less than twenty-four hours later, the author of the piece was found dead in a salvage yard in the southern part of the city. His decapitated head had been impaled on the hood ornament of a junked Studebaker, a copy of the article shoved in his mouth. The rest of his body was left neatly in the vehicle’s bed, minus the eight fingers and two thumbs he’d used to type the piece; those were never recovered.
Lautaro and Alvar had terrorized their territory south of the border for years, keeping the local law enforcement at bay through intimidation that went well beyond idle threats. Both well above six feet tall, the imposing drug lords demonstrated a wiliness and shocking indiff
