The Lord of Opium

In the riveting sequel to the acclaimed bestseller The House of the
Scorpion, Matt reels from the change in status quo and struggles to do
the right thing; find out his story’s end in this new edition with a
reimagined cover! Matt Alacrán is a fourteen-year-old drug lord. Until
recently, Matt was just a clone grown from a strip of El Patrón’s skin.
Now he is lord of the land of Opium, on the one-time US–Mexico border,
and rules over an army of microchipped, zombielike workers who are
programmed to produce the drugs that are Opium’s main export. El Patrón
kept the air and water in Opium clean, but the rest of the world is a
polluted wasteland. Matt is sure that, in his new position, he can find a
way to break the cycle of violence and destruction—but it will only be
possible if he chooses the right people to trust.