“Nola repeated. “Like elephants?”
“Probably rhinos in this case,” Sam said.
“What? Like the animal that lives in Africa? Why would someone traffic a rhino?” Nola said.
“Not the whole animal. Mostly just the tusks. It’s big business,” Sam replied.
She couldn’t quite wrap her mind around it.
“But I don’t understand,” she said.
“Do you know how much a kilo of ground tusk wholesales for?” Cruz asked.
“I didn’t know that there even was such a thing, but what, ten thousand dollars?” she said, thinking her estimate was ridiculously high.
“To put it in perspective, a kilo of pure cocaine is around sixty thousand. Rhino runs twenty-five percent more,” Ace said.
Nola’s mouth dropped open, and she was stunned. “Seventy-five thousand dollars for rhinoceros tusk?
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