Dead Serious - C. D. Moulton - Bog

Clint is visiting friends in Santiago when a man from Brazil says he is going to stand up to the local excuse for a mafia.
A local lawyer says, "You can't be serious "
"Dead serious," he replies.
Then the bodies start showing up. They are the bodies of the man's associates and friends.
Is the mafia eliminating problems before they start? Then why not kill Sargento?
Clint doesn't think so.