And you got out of the country just in time, if I remember rightly.

There was a price placed on your head by the distressed government.

I imagine they would have shot you if they could have caught you--as they did the others." The old man chuckled.

"You don't expect to return to South America, do you?
The price is still offered, you know." King was glaring at him in sheer wonder.

Here was an episode in his life that he fondly hoped might never come to light; he knew how it would disturb his mother.