"Don’t know," Rafael answered. "Maybe. He told me to post a message to a particular chat group when Mama Grande and I got back to Seattle, to let him know we’d arrived safely. As far as I could see it was just a bunch of people talking about their favorite hot peppers or shooting the breeze with friends. I had strict instructions: log on, thank him for sending me the banana peppers, and say that they had arrived safely. That was the code. The chat group was called the Salsa Connection. I don’t even know whether the AFL still monitors it."