Chapter Eight

Chapter Eight

New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

Manuel Rodriguez left his home in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on his way to New York for his meeting with Cummins. 

He took a taxi to the train station in Trenton. He had to wait for fifteen minutes, before the train arrived.

He got on the train, and sat down on a window seat.

He put on his headphones and listened to Jay-Z’s music, turning the volume up to the highest. 

He also pretended to read a book so as to discourage a conversation with the man sitting beside him, he also texted each of the other four members of his gang, to meet them at the usual meeting venue in the Bronx. 

As the train moved, he went down memory lane.

Rodriguez first came into the US as an illegal immigrant from Mexico in nineteen ninety-nine as a nineteen-year-old, he had crossed the border between Los Angeles and Mexico.

When he first got to the States