Word: amelita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only Lucy Nichols is no longer a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, and the person she and Jack are retrieving is not dead. Amelita Sosa has in fact been smuggled by Lucy out of Nicaragua, footsteps ahead of Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras...