“The port access Nazario needed to receive his shipment was only the first of his plans to start running drugs along the East Coast in a systematic expansion down to Miami. The initial shipment, worth ten million, was a sort of trial run with a new supplier. He needed the transaction to go smoothly in order to gain the supplier’s trust and gain more business with him. While we supplied much of our own product on the West Coast, it was more cost effective to outsource production for the East Coast.” “That doesn’t make any sense,” Edoardo cut in. “Did he honestly think we’d allow him to continue doing business in the city after he’d kidnapped my daughter?” “He believed the leverage of a hostage was necessary to negotiate a permanent foothold in the city, which he planned to demand after his
