A pregnant widow welcomes an elderly couple into her home, unaware that a mafia boss is secretly watching their every move.

lay watching the damp-stained ceiling. She did not know who they were. She did not know that Don Aurelio Mendoza had been known as “The Ghost” fifty years earlier — a figure of legend in the criminal world whom all of Mexico City believed to be dead. She did not know that the most feared man in the capital owed his father’s life to that old man.

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