Chapter 919 (Incest/Taboo):Their Love Problem:>Ep17

• "This is bad, Johnny; I'm not going to lie. I know you had your reasons, and in your place I would have done the same thing, but the fact is you've now got major-league trouble on your tail; word gets around on the street real quick in these parts, and most people are saying the same thing; the two men you...disposed of? One was just a moose, just muscle, but the other one was Lucé Ribeiro; he and his two brothers Joao and Felipe are what was left after the Gulf cartel decided the Mob was in their way around here; back then they were just runners, originally from one of the favela gangs in Rio, low-level nobodies; after the dust cleared, they made a deal, now they dance to the cartel's tune; they're an important pipeline along the East Coast, and their people run Hell's Kitchen and points West; they've got muscle, and serious connections; the word is half the precincts are either in their pay or riddled with snitches, so the law hasn't been able to touch them in years."
• Barker sighed and ran his fingers through his hair.
• "These people are savages, John, and they rule through fear; Felipe likes to cut fingers, ears, or noses off as a reminder to repay debts, and he doesn't care who he mutilates. Luiz is a rapist; he thinks he's a ladies' man, and it doesn't matter whose wife or daughter she is; if he wants her, he'll take her, and once he's done with her, they'll find her in a river somewhere a long way from here with her hands and feet gone and her face chewed off; he keeps a clutch of pit-bulls and he likes to give them fresh meat..."