Father Prada, one of the most heroic and human depictions of a priest that I’ve read, fights for his community against the corruption and violence of the cartels without becoming corrupt himself. His quest for revenge, it could be argued, is the only thing that gives his position purpose. Agent Keller becomes obsessed with nailing the Barreras for his murdered partner. He writes in crisp sentences that sacrifice substance for brevity.”Įach character is swept up in the world of illegal narcotics, struggling to control their own fate.
“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. _ The Cartel, the blockbuster sequel to The Power of the Dog, is also available.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. Don 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. 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. Art 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. His nephew, Adan Barrera, is his worthy successor. Drug lord Miguel Angel Barrera is head of the Mexican drug federacion, responsible for millions of dollars worth of cocaine traffic into the US and the torture and murder of those who stand in its way. Superb' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY _ A brilliant page-turning thriller of power and revenge on the front lines of the drug war. should have a place on every crime freak's bookshelf.
'Breathtaking' JEREMY CLARKSON 'Winslow's masterpiece (so far).
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