Usage examples of "dutra".
Ramon Dutra would automatically put his back to the wall, with good reason.
If Dutra was the one man Kates personally wanted to hire, then this was rapidly getting much rougher than Ben had originally thought.
Maybe Kates was fool enough to think he could hire Dutra to do his dirty work, then guide him out of the jungle with the loot before he himself killed Dutra.
Probably Dutra was planning on roughly the same scenario, but with a different dead person at the end of it.
He met up with a hired killer, a thug named Ramon Dutra, and hired him as one of our party.
From what all his contacts had said, Dutra always went up the Amazon when he disappeared upriver.
He knew that Kates had hired Dutra specifically for his killing skills.
Let Kates believe that Ben thought Dutra had duped Kates by lying about his expertise.
It made Dutra the bad guy while allowing Kates to still pretend that he was on the up-and-up.
If he ever decided they were on to him, he might well tell Dutra to kill them the first chance he had.
Kates went over to where Dutra was swinging the machete with murderous power.
With Dutra so close, there was no way she would take the chance of being caught alone even for those few steps.
Kates rather looked forward to the time when Dutra would shut that whining mouth forever.
Rather than the expert on the interior he had claimed to be, Dutra had turned out to be a murderous thug who had sometimes gone upriver to hide out from the law.
Even during the calls of nature, he had made a point of being close by, and keeping a lookout for Dutra at the same time.