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Introduction -- The places -- The book in three Culichi novels -- The author, the crime, the idiot, and the language of the narcos -- Dealing with everyday violence: the journalist and the painter -- The epics of two highlanders: Castulo Bojorquez and Ramon Guerrero -- The problematic emergence of sicarios in Colombia -- Love and letters in the times of narcos -- Gender and genre in Hector Abad Faciolince's Angosta -- Playing with stereotypes -- Epilogue.