Showing Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo

A writer Fernando returns to Medellin after an absence of 30 years. He meets Alexis, 16 years old, a male prostitute and a hitman - a Medellin child - with whom he falls in love. But their tender love is doomed. Alexis needs no reason to kill: like an Angel of Death he opens fire on anybody who rubs him the wrong way. Fernando and Alexis are bound by an intense passion as they wander from church to chruch, murder to murder. When Alexis is finally killed himself Fernando unwittingly takes up with his killer. Reminiscent of the best of Genet, Our Lady of the Assassins is a dark, fierce book that blames the church and the political elite for Colombia's tragedy.