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From the New York Times bestselling author, here is the first novel in the explosive Power of the Dog series—an action-filled look at the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge.
Book One of the Power of the Dog Series
Set about ten years prior to The Cartel, this gritty novel introduces a brilliant cast of characters. Art Keller is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell’s kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hit man. And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federación. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you’ve never seen it.
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"A brutal but well-written novel. Don Winslow presents a gritty, believable tale about the "war on drugs" and America's complicated relationship with its southern neighbor, Mexico. Tying together complex geopolitical factors with nuanced details, Winslow lets his unique cast blindly stumble, slash, shoot, and bludgeon their way across the southern half of the North American continent. Tragic and unforgettable, the novel reads like a slow-motion train wreck, tumbling carnage and bodies across both sides of the border. The cost of "success", whether in the pursuit of justice or the pursuit of power, is everything. The explicit violent nature of The Power of the Dog is not recommended for all readers, but if you want an intelligent crime novel that avoids a cookie-cutter "Good guys always win" ending, this might be for you."
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The Power of the Dog Don Winslow Books Reviews
- A brutal but well-written novel. Don Winslow presents a gritty, believable tale about the "war on drugs" and America's complicated relationship with its southern neighbor, Mexico. Tying together complex geopolitical factors with nuanced details, Winslow lets his unique cast blindly stumble, slash, shoot, and bludgeon their way across the southern half of the North American continent. Tragic and unforgettable, the novel reads like a slow-motion train wreck, tumbling carnage and bodies across both sides of the border. The cost of "success", whether in the pursuit of justice or the pursuit of power, is everything. The explicit violent nature of The Power of the Dog is not recommended for all readers, but if you want an intelligent crime novel that avoids a cookie-cutter "Good guys always win" ending, this might be for you.
- This book is truly a rollercoaster ride. And yes, you better have time to read it once you start because it will be hard to put it down. I didn't think he could keep it up throughout the book but he does and he leaves you actually wishing it was longer.
Having read both Savages and The Kings of Cool, this book is totally different in style. I felt like Don Winslow had grown up. But I was never disappointed. At all. Although I recommend you read those books first because they feel lighter, like a young writer having fun, while this one feels like an adult writer, still having fun but somehow with gravitas, as the subject matter deserves.
Also, this is a work of fiction but if you know anything about history and the WODs, it feels entirely plausible that this is the way it went down. Isn't that magical? Heck, if I was a writer I'd be both upset and thankful; the former because how can I top this guy's writing or even get to his level? The latter because he shows me that it can be done!
I could go on for a while but I'll end it by saying that you won't be disappointed at all with this book. I'm not advertising for . I'm giving my opinion about the book and about Don Winslow. I don't care how or where you get the book. Just read it and have all the fun that books promise. - Don Winslow sets himself a challenge weaving four main characters with different stories into a cohesive novel of vast scope. 'Changing gears' from one set of 'wise guys' to the War On Drugs set in Mexico, San Salvador and Columbia and interweaving a dark political story of US interference in the governance of our Southern Neighbors is quite an accomplishment. A sudden rough shift now and then at the cost of some literary artistry does not detract from the overall entertainment or impact of THE POWER OF THE DOG.
First we meet Callan, an outside Killer in the service of a major Mafia Family. He and his closer associates, O'Bop and Big Peaches and Little Peaches are convincingly drawn and they come and go throughout the story. Callan is tired of killing and would like to leave 'The Life' but his employers always have 'one more job' for him to do. His other associates are 'in the Life' forever, even while they are in a Federal Witness Protection Program.
Art Keller, an ex-soldier from the Operation Phoenix assassination program in Viet Nam, finds himself in Mexico, where he is tasked with infiltrating the Barrera Family drug business. They have started with Opium and are shifting into Cocaine distribution. Art knows the Padron, 'Tio' Barerra as a top police official. Tio has also put together a narcotics 'Federacion' of formerly competing Families and they have corrupted the government and even the society of the country. Art makes an 'impression' on them through his dogged determination in a sparring match with one of their up-and-coming boxers. Tio feeds him information that breaks up a lot of drug organizations. He develops a relationship with Adan Barrera, Adan's story of his climb up the Federacion ladder and inevitable fall makes him the third compelling character in the story. Meanwhile, Keller is rising through the DEA, driven at first by an implacable sense of Justice and then by an implacable need for avenging the torture and death of one of his agents.
The sexy call girl, Nora Hayden, is a fourth major character. Nora appears and reappears throughout the plot(s) in the novel. She is well-drawn as a character she uses sex as a tool to get money but she also has a social conscience and a lot of grit. Her life changes more than once always a call-girl or mistress, she is caught up in the Mexico City earthquake where she finds she needs to help others to endure misfortune. Adan Barrera meets her and is besotted by her whole package of looks, sexuality and practical business sense and that puts her at the center of the drug story.
Readers are not likely to 'feel good' about America as they follow the 'ends justify the means' policies put in place by far-right CIA and State Department officials. Running scared from a perceived 'Domino Effect' of South American governments falling to Castro-like Communism, the government makes all sorts of deals and partners in all sorts of human rights abuses 'for the greater good.' They undertake an operation code-named Cerebus to get arms, technical advice and training to authoritarian but anti-communist militias and juntas. Those actors use 'War On Drugs' resources to exterminate union leaders, left-ish intellectuals and even to sway elections, in a program called 'Red Mist.' We read about similar programs in our newspapers back in the day. This did happen.
So...thrills, dirty deals, some explicit sex and sexuality and history combine to make this a highly reviewed and often-reviewed offering. - I had hopes for this. But after 50+ pages, the writing and story became tedious and boring. The subject matter and plot summary are interesting, but the characters came across to me as uninvolving and no one I particularly wanted to get to know better. Way too much detail for too little point. Pared down to half this length, maybe the book would work. But too often scenes appeared to be there to stretch out the book, not to illuminate the characters or the plot. I imagined trying to slog through another 500 pages of this and said, no, life is too short. To charity it goes.
Also, the use of present tense does not accomplish much. A very few novels might require this verb tense, but here it seems a mere affectation and an attempt to draw attention to itself. Overall, the book would have benefited from a traditional past tense presentation.
Guess I won't be buying any more Winslow books. - A fantastic book!! I highly recommend this fictional novel (although it is based on many true events) if you want to learn about the violence and devastation caused by the war between the drug cartels and the US and Mexican governments. The bottom line is that some people will do anything for immense amounts of money and power. An honest, principled individual is a rare thing in this war--especially if that individual is given the choice by the cartels of taking the bribes (money) and living OR not taking the bribes and knowing they will be tracked down and killed in a horrible way because of their decision. This book points out the consequences of the basic law of supply and demand as it relates to illegal drug use and government enforcement of the laws. After reading this book I had to purchase the sequel book "The Cartel" to read the end of the story.
