Don Winslow

The seemingly disparate lives of a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, and a priest intertwine around a nexus of the drug trade involving the Latin American drug cartels, the American underworld, and the U.S. government, from the rise of the Mexican drug Federacion in the 1970s to the present day. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

The Power of the Dog

Pierre

This is close to but not law enforcement porn. It is very easy to read. It’s like an action movie. Not quite an intellectual elevation but very satisfying.

Cheri Fuller

I don't think I've ever read a novel about drug lords and government agencies before. I certainly had never read anything by Don Winslow. I became aware of his books by following him on Twitter and loving his anti-Trump stance and his foray into making short films about our own mob boss in chief.

So The Power of the Dog reminded me very much of a Game of Thrones sort of book set in the Regan/Bush I years with mobsters, drug cartels, and shadowy government agencies instead of kingdoms and dragons. So many characters and settings but it does eventually come together. And it came together so very well. This is a long book and I never lost interest so that has to say something...

I'll be starting on the second in the series next. I haven't read the blurb so I'm not sure if it will have some of the same folks or a new cast of characters. I hope Ray Porter is the narrator, though. He was absolutely fantastic.

From the acclaimed author of "The Death and Life of Bobby Z" and "California Fire and Life" comes an explosive novel of the drug trade described by "The Baltimore Sun" as "an express train of a thriller."

Violent. Complicated. Twists and turns. One of those books that brings you so close to the characters, you don’t want to know what happens to them. A span of some years, as the power of the dog - that gripping obsession - wages war within and without. People die, terribly, casually. And corruption finds its way into the most pure of hearts. Excellent. 

Jan Jackson

Simon Lund Larsen

One of the best books I've read in a very long time.
Think The Given Day by Dennis Lehane, just waaaaay more violent and gritty. And frank way better.

Melody Izard

Brutal and disturbing. It's always a war. on drugs, on terrorism, on communism. It's also very, very difficult to tell the good guys from the bad.

Década de los setenta: el gobierno de Estados Unidos emprende una lucha sin cuartel contra el narcotráfico en México. Art Keller, un joven agente de la DEA de origen hispano, no tarda en obtener resultados y acabar con el patrón local. Un error fatal. El nuevo heredero del imperio del narcotráfico es Adán Barrera, y ambos saben cómo ha llegado a serlo.
Encadenados a la misma guerra, se encuentran Nora Hayden, una hermosa prostituta de alto standing adiestrada para hacer enloquecer a los hombres; el padre Parada, un cura católico confidente de esta y empeñado en ayudar al pueblo, y Billy Boy Callan, un chico taciturno, convertido en asesino a sueldo por azar.
Narcovaqueros, campesinos, mafia al puro estilo italoamericano, una jauría de irlandeses armados, policías corruptos, un soplón con el sugerente sobrenombre de Mamada y un santo milagrero conforman el universo de este thriller sobre la eterna búsqueda de la redención.

El poder del perro

Miguel Angel Palmer Salva

A. D. Knapp

Having sworn off marriage until she can find a man who will treat her as an equal, the beautiful and unconventional Georgiana Knight is drawn to Ian Prescott, the Marquess of Griffith, a mysterious diplomat in India on a mission to prevent the outbreak of war--feelings that entangle her in a web of danger and passion that will transform her life forever.

Javi Velasco

Michael Cowell

Manuel J. Rivera

Rory O'K

David C

Martin Weiss

'Breathtaking' JEREMY CLARKSON 'Winslow's masterpiece (so far) ... should have a place on every crime freak's bookshelf. Superb' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY _______________________ A brilliant page-turning thriller of power and revenge on the front lines of the drug war. Drug lord Miguel Angel Barrera is head of the Mexican drug federación, responsible for millions of dollars worth of cocaine traffic into the US and the torture and murder of those who stand in its way. His nephew, Adan Barrera, is his worthy successor. 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. 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... 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. _______________________ The Cartel, the blockbuster sequel to The Power of the Dog, is also available.

The Power of the Dog

Reviews