Lord of Opium

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-09-26 Pages: 432 Language: English Publisher: Simon & Schuster Matt has always been nothing but a clone - an exact replica. grown from a strip of old El Patrons skin Now. age fourteen. Matt. suddenly finds himself thrust into the position of ruling over his own country. Opium. on the one-time border between the US and Mexico. stretching from the ruins of San Diego to the ruins of Matamoros. But while Opium thrives. the rest of the world has been devastated by ecological disaster ... and hidden somewhere in Opium is the cure. And that isnt all thats hidden within the depths of Opium. Matt is haunted by the ubiquitous army of eejits. zombie-like workers harnessed to the old El Patrons sinister system of drug growing ... people stripped of the very qualities which once made them human. Matt wants to use his newfound power to help stop the suffering. bu...