This exhaustively researched novel elucidates not just the situation in Mexico but the consequences of our own disastrous 40-year “war on drugs.” Author tour 50,000–copy first printing. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Along the way, Keller falls in love with Marisol Cisneros, a beautiful doctor who heads a small but committed group of journalists and artists dedicated to resisting the violence. Set about ten years prior to The Cartel, this gritty novel introduces a brilliant cast of characters. As a war between Barrera’s cartel and several different competing factions ensues, violence overwhelms the city of Ciudad Juárez. Keller agrees to return to duty and spearheads several attempts to capture Barrera, who remains elusive and seemingly protected by the Mexican police and government. DEA agent Art Keller has withdrawn from the world, tending bees for a New Mexico monastery, when he receives word that his old nemesis, Adán Barrera, leader of the Sinaloan cartel El Federación, has escaped from prison and is intent on reestablishing control of his empire. Set in 2004, Winslow’s masterly sequel to The Power of the Dog (2005) continues his epic story of the Mexican drug wars. The Cartel: Two friends embark on different paths, one working for the Drug Enforcement Agency, the other for a Mexican drug cartel.
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