Matteo Alacran was not born; he was harvested. His DNA come from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster ...
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Matteo Alacran was not born; he was harvested. His DNA come from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster ...
Between the U.S.A. and Aztlán (once called Mexico) lies a strip of land, known as Opium, the name of its chief product. It is ruled by a 146-year-old drug lord known as El Patrón. His fields are tilled by illegal immigrants, called "eejits," who have computer chips implanted in their brains so that they can be kept in slavery.
Matt, a boy who is confined in a cottage on El Patrón estate, manages to break out, only to find himself treated like an animal. Eventually at age six he learns why. He discovers that he is different from other children, from other people. To most people Matt isn't a boy, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. The tattoo on his foot, "Property of Alacrán Estates," means that he is a clone of El Patrón - and that he is being raised to provide spare body parts for his original. To El Patron, lord of a counrty called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the same DNA.As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence trully means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields.
With the aid of Tam Lin, his bodyguard, Matt escapes from Opium but that is not the end of his troubles. Even escape is no guarantee of freedom because Matt is marked but his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. He is imprisoned in a brutal labor camp for orphaned boys in Aztlán and leads a rebellion to rescue not only himself, but the other "Lost Boys."
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