sentences:  Pablo Escobar, in the middle of his war against the Colombian authorities in the 1990s, offered three to five million pesos (about US$5,280 y 8,800 of 1990 currency) to anybody who would kill an official of the Police.About 300 policemen were killed in Medellín by "sicarios" willing to get paid by the mafias.The other central theme of the novel is the city of Medellín as the backdrop for the urban violence and young hired killers.