Raphael knows they have to deliver José's letter to Gabriel. He worked in the man's house as a houseboy for eight years before the theft. José stole six million US dollars from Senator Zapanta, the country's vice-president. Raphael explains to the reader that in their research online, the boys learned José was murdered by the police during an interrogation-perhaps in the same room Raphael just left. But Raphael sticks with his story, and they release him to run home to the dump covered in blood. They interrogate him violently, hitting him and dangling him out the window, threatening to drop him to his death. That night, police tear apart Raphael's shanty and bring him to the police station in town. They learn more about José Angelico and Gabriel, a journalist serving a life sentence at Colva Prison. The boys use the computer at the Mission School, which is run by two foreigners, Olivia Weston and Father Juilliard. There is a slip of paper with a code of numbers on it. They recover a letter addressed to a prisoner named Gabriel Olondriz. Rat knows the key is for a locker at the Central Station, so the boys set out to open it. Rat lives at the bottom of a disused conveyor belt once used for bringing trash out on top of the piles. Gardo and Raphael hide the wallet at Rat's, knowing the police might search their homes. Raphael keeps quiet about the wallet, knowing it must be valuable if the police want them. They offer a cash reward of ten thousand pesos, and one hundred a day for searching for it. That night, the police come to Behala to ask if anyone has found the wallet. One day Raphael finds a wallet containing a map, a key, cash, and an ID card belonging to a man named José Angelico. Often they only find stupp-human excrement wrapped in paper-because many people don't have toilets. Rather than attend school, Raphael, Gardo, and Rat (Jun-Jun) pick through the trash hoping to find anything they can sell to help feed themselves and their families. Told in the voices of multiple first-person narrators, T rash follows three boys who live in Behala, a third-world shantytown next to a garbage dump.

Trash book andy mulligan