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The riveting true story of a remarkable woman who pursued her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter by a ruthless Mexican drug cartel - from a global investigative correspondent for The New York TimesFear Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States as a fifty-six-year-old woman named Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of the men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter, Karen. He is her target #11, and a member of the drug cartel that has terrorized Miriam's once-quiet hometown of San Fernando, almost one hundred miles from the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair red as a disguise and staying just out of sight, Miriam orchestrates the arrest of this man, holding him until police come, and exacting her own version of justice.