a short summary on the house of the scorpion

The House of Scorpion begins in a dystopian future, on a violence-torn strip of land between the United States and Mexico (known as Opium or “Dreamland”) ruled over by powerful and unnaturally long-lived drug lord El Patron. The protagonist, Matteo “Matt” Alacran, is in actuality a genetic clone of El Patron, and is slated to be harvested for his organs. For the first six years of Matt’s life, he lives with El Patrons’ cook Celia on the edge of the Alacran estate.