One of the first things this book made me realize was that I had watched Narcos all wrong. I’d thought that the title referred to the DEA agents, I guess I was thinking “narcs” or “narcotics officers”. But the word narcos stands for narcotraficantes – the traffickers. Makes sense. The show was about Pablo Escobar, not the other guys. Fruit of the Drunken Tree is the story not of the agents or the traffickers, but of the Colombian citizens caught in the crossfire. In her debut novel, […]