A repentant Mexican contract killer, trained in the United States by the FBI, describes in detail his experience kidnapping, torturing and murdering people for the drug industry and how he left the business and turned to Christ. Original.
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Published10 mai 2011
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Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden
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El Sicario
by Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden
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