Laura Restrepo

A novel on a bloody feud between two drug families in Colombia. They are the Monsalves and the Barragans and they engage in an unrelenting cycle of sexual rivalry and pay-back killings. A South American Godfather.

"Immune to the consequences of immorality, five privileged young men in Bogotá bond over a shared code: worship drugs and drink, exploit women, and scorn the underclass. As males, they declare the right to freedom of pleasure. As friends, only disloyalty to each other is forbidden. When a little girl from the slums disappears, the limits of a perverse and sacred bond will be tested in ways none of them could have imagined."--Book jacket