![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Winslow forges his relationship with his readers like a great film director does with his audience. All four deal with the Barrera Brothers, two heirs to one of the largest drug empires, as allies and enemies at different times. We follow four characters: Art Keller, a former CIA spook who trades in Vietnam for Latin America with the DEA Nora Hayden, a high priced call girl Cullan, an Irish American enforcer and hitman and Father Prada, a Mexican priest dealing with the poverty and cartel corruption in his country. The novel has the sweep and structure of a Herman Wouk-style historical novel, but since it is Winslow’s look at our war on drugs in the last three decades of the Twentieth Century, the style, attitude, and content are hard boiled without a doubt. Now I’m kicking myself for not reading it sooner. Being spurred on by the June release of its sequel, The Cartel, I finally cracked it open. Maybe it had to do with the five hundred pages. While I love Winslow’s work, for some reason, I never picked up. Over ten years ago, Bobby McCue, my boss at LA’s The Mystery Bookstore, gave me a copy of Don Winslow’s The Power Of The Dog for Christmas. ![]()
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