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The Lord of Opium

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As the teenage ruler of his own country, Matt will have to cope with clones and cartels in this “electric blend of horrors and beauty” (Publishers Weekly), the riveting sequel to the modern classic House of the Scorpion, winner of the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, and a Printz Honor.

Matt has at all times been nothing but a clone—grown from a strip of old El Patron’s skin. Now, at age fourteen, he finds himself abruptly thrust into the position of ruling over his own country. The Land of Opium is the largest territory of the Dope Confederacy, which ranges on the map like an intestine from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But at the same time as Opium thrives, the remainder of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster—and hidden in Opium is the cure.

And that isn’t all that awaits within the depths of Opium. Matt is haunted by the ubiquitous army of eejits, zombielike workers harnessed to the old El Patron’s sinister system of drug growing—people stripped of the very qualities that once made them human.

Matt wants to use his newfound power to assist, to stop the suffering, but he can’t even find a way to smuggle his childhood love, Maria, across the border and into Opium. As a substitute, his each move hits a roadblock, some from the enemies that surround him…and a few from a voice within himself. For who is Matt in reality, but the clone of an evil, murderous dictator? Is his true destiny already predetermined by his genes?

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