A fast-paced narrative of jealousy and death; of family feuding and an unrelenting round of pay-back killings. Yet it is also a love story in which two women risk all, standing aside from the accepted family traditions of crime and death, to secure a future for their beloved sons.
In this magical novel, Laura Restrepo explores what happens when primitive people - at the margins of society, justice and capitalism - become bosses of a violent empire of drug trafficking with access to sophisticated weapons and enormous quantities of dollars.
