Author Biography: Don Winslow has worked as a movie theatre manager, a production. The Cartel, the blockbuster sequel to The Power of the Dog, is also available. The Cartel, the blockbuster sequel to The Power of the Dog, is also available. In a brutal world filled with striking characters, from a high class prostitute to an Irish hitman and a charismatic Catholic priest, everyone is in search of some kind of salvation - or damnation.ĭon Winslow's masterpiece is not only a page-turning thriller but also a rich and compelling novel in the league of James Ellroy or Don DeLillo. His nephew, Adan Barrera, is his worthy successor.Īrt Keller is a US government operative, so determined to obtain revenge for a murdered colleague that his pursuit of the cartel veers dangerously towards an obsession outside the law. Superb' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYĪ brilliant page-turning thriller of power and revenge on the front lines of the drug war.ĭrug lord Miguel Angel Barrera is head of the Mexican drug federaci n, responsible for millions of dollars worth of cocaine traffic into the US and the torture and murder of those who stand in its way. should have a place on every crime freak's bookshelf. 'This is Winslow's masterpiece (so far) and should have a place on every crime freak's bookshelf. A hugely ambitious, page-turning thriller of power and revenge, in the tradition of the Great American Novel.
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