Synopsis:
Karla Santodomingo, a young Colombian woman from a humble background, joins the Ministry of Prisons after the birth of her first child. Inside the Villahermosa prison in Cali (Colombia), while trying to adapt to her new work situation, she meets Larson Aranda, the biggest drug trafficker of the Norte del Valle Cartel, an economist and strategist who, thanks to his privileged mind and elegance, will make the young woman cross all the barriers allowed as a civil servant, and both will live a friendship inside the prison that will go beyond what is forbidden.
Following Carla’s life and her work in prison, we will witness a unique experience that will allow us to meet an interesting gallery of characters: a murderer with an “angel face”; an innocent salsa musician who writes more than thirty-three songs that after being locked up will continue to be heard worldwide; a fine and elegant drug lord, a lover of luxury and capable of killing more than three hundred and fifteen people, and then undergoing surgeries until becoming “the man of a thousand faces”; a professional soccer player, imprisoned for buying a stolen motorcycle and who will later be murdered; a guerrilla who continues training his “boys” so that they can always be on the warpath; a kidnapping inside the prison; millionaire stashes worth almost 100 million dollars and an earthquake that the “tough guys” supported with their money.
This book is a surprising and vivid behind-the-bars chronicle of the rise of the drug cartels in Cali and the North Valley, after the death of Pablo Escobar. The story will take you to what really happens in a Colombian prison with all the powers that be behind bars.
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