In the beginning of this book, six-year-old Matt has lived his life under the careful care of Celia, who he thinks of as a Mother. That changes when three children-Steven, Emilia,and Maria-lure Matt out of the house,but during the process of breaking out, he is injured, and rushed to the big house where Celia works. Once there, Matt discovers that he is a clone, which means that he is treated like scum by everybody in the room except Maria, and thrown into a locked room where he is kept prisoner, until Celia finds him. Just after he is rescued, Matt meets El Patron, the man from which he was cloned, and the most powerful drug lord in the land of Opium between America and Atzlan. Matt starts leading a much better life than most clones because of El Patron's power. One day, Matt's bodyguard, Tam-Lin, shows Matt a secret oasis outside of the opium fields, and on the way he learns about eejits,the workers in the field who tried to flee across the border, but now had implants in there head, controlling them. Later, Matt learns about a secret passage inside the big house. Soon after, Matt is blamed for the death of Maria's dog, Furball, and realizes that he loves Maria just before she leaves. A long time later, El Patron's (really old) son dies and at the funeral, where Matt gets the chance to talk to Maria in the secret passage and she forgives him for killing , but just then they overhear Felicia (the most drunk person in the entire household) say that she killed Furball, but before they hear anymore Tam-Lin comes and takes Maria away to her covenant. Some time later Tam-Lin, Matt,and Celia are talking, and Tam-Lin tells Matt that El Patron keeps all his treasures in a huge hoard where he wants to be buried. Then, at Emilia and Steven's wedding, El Patron has heart attack, and Matt, who was hiding in the secret passage watching realizes the reason people have clones including himself is that they use them for organ transplants, killing the clones, but giving the possibility that if one has enough clones, he or she can live forever. Matt is caught and brought to the hospital so he will be ready for transplant when Celia reveals to everyone that she has been feeding Matt arsenic, making him impossible to transplant from. Matt escapes to Atzlan, where he is kept prisoner by keepers, but makes three friends: Fidelito, Chacho, and Ton-Ton. They escape to Maria's covenant, where Maria's mother tells Matt hat since El Patron is dead he has become El Patron, and gives him a mission find out what was going on in Opium. After arriving in Opium Matt discovers a horrifying secret: El Patron wanted the people he knew to be part of his hoard. Everone he knew from the big house was dead except for Maria, Celia, the eejits, Daft Donald( one of El Patrons bodyguards), and his music teacher. At the end Matt swears to correct the mistakes of El Patron.
End Part two
Monday, May 25, 2009
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