The two guards who'd been here, as at the other sites, were simply gone.  That surely meant that they were dead, of course, but the only real knowledge he had was that they were gone.  Perhaps he was supposed to think that they had set the explosives, but they were simple peasants in the pay of the Cartel, untrained ruffians who probably hadn't even patrolled around the area to make certain that…
Follow me. He left the helicopter with one of his assistants in trail.  This one was a former police officer who did have some rudimentary intelligence; at least he knew how to follow simple orders! Mara had given it to him the period before they'd left.