![]() ![]() Winslow, a former private eye and insurance investigator, clearly knows the drug trade inside and out. ![]() But he remains Keller’s white whale - at least until even more unpleasant foes arrive, in the form of the Zeta gang, an Islamic State-like group without the jihadist undertones, who leave a bloody and macabre trail across the Mexican countryside. Written as a sequel to 2005’s “The Power of the Dog,” which first introduced readers to the tragicomic consequences of the war on drugs, “The Cartel” once again pits DEA agent Art Keller as the Inspector Javert bound and determined to get his archenemy, drug kingpin Adán Barrera.Ī lonely, elegant figure, Barrera resembles Michael Corleone (“Godfather” references abound) in his apparent distaste for the baroque nature and vicious actions required to maintain his criminal empire. In his new novel, “The Cartel,” Don Winslow depicts the raging drug wars conducted by narco-criminals of various ilk and the mostly futile, sometimes criminal efforts of American (mainly) and Mexican (rarely) law enforcement officials to curtail it. ![]()
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