Gender studies illuminate literary production as a discourse representing social imaginaries; in particular, the behaviors resulting from such wordless consensus that determine attitudes, behaviors and values ​​in social exchange, in tune with correlates in narrative fiction. The present proposal will analyze the construction of the masculinities in two works by Colombian writers: Cartas cruzadas (1995), by Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, and El ruido de las cosas al caer (2011), by Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Both works, in which drug trafficking appears as inevitable for twentieth-century Colombian society, show the transformation of the characters, not only for their desire for power, but also for the deepening to the extreme of androcentric models inherited from patriarchy. These, apparently attenuated in middle-class individuals that correspond to contemporary urban societies, are exacerbated in the world of drug trafficking, which is recreated in these two novels belonging to writers of different generations.