Section 19 Summary

Chee arrives at the New Mexico State prison to check information about Musket who is reportedly quiet and got good reports for his work. He also learns that Musket had money in his canteen account that was deposited there by lawyers connected to narcotic trafficking.

Examining the Musket file, Chee finds the police record to be unremarkable, but there had been an arrest for a robbery at a Seven Eleven store in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Musket had waited in the car outside while a Thomas West had gone inside the store with a gun. The two suspects had been caught after they abandoned the getaway car. West had been indicted but Musket had not been positively identified. Musket was finally sent to the Santa Fe penitentiary after a drug bust when eight hundred pounds of marijuana had been off loaded from a...