Chapter Five:The Drug Lord


FATHER John Wotherspoon, the drug-busting priest (read Chapter Two) has spent the past few months connecting the dots between over two dozen Malaysian drug mules.

The cases came from different cities and countries, but when Wotherspoon started asking about the mules’ recruiters, many seemed to trace back to the same person – a drug lord named Shanker*.

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