The Cartel

From the internationally bestselling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines story of power, corruption, revenge, and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American drug wars.
It's 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly-the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead.
Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down. His obsession with justice-or is it revenge?-becomes a ruthless struggle that stretches from the cities, mountains, and deserts of Mexico to Washington's corridors of power to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona.
Keller fights his personal battle against the devastated backdrop of Mexico's drug war, a conflict of unprecedented scale and viciousness, as cartels vie for power and he comes to the final reckoning with Barrera-and himself-that he always knew must happen.
The Cartel is a true-to-life story of honor and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul. It is the story of the war on drugs and the men-and women-who wage it. Prologue
Part One: To Arise From Sleep: 1: The Beekeepers
2: Christmas in Prison
3: The Hunting of Man
Part Two: The Gulf War: 1: The Devil Is Dead
2: Los Negros
3: Los Dos Laredos
4: Jesus the Kid
5: Narco Polo
Part Three: Good Night, Juu00e1rez: 1: Gente Nueva - the New People
2: Journalists
3: Jolly Coppers on Parade
4: The Valley
Part Four: The Jack of Spades and the Z Company: 1: Women's Business
2: What Is It That You Want From Us?
3: Each New Morn
Part Five: The Cleansing: 1: Jihad
2: La Plaza Del Periodista
3: The Cleansing
Epilogue: Ciudad Juu00e1rez
"I'm totally swept up. You can't ask for more emotionally moving entertainment."
"A first-rate edge-of-your-seat thriller."
"A gut-punch of a novel. Big, ambitious, violent, and wildly entertaining…an absolute must-read."
"Sensationally good."
"This is the War and Peace of dope-war books. Tense, brutal, wildly atmospheric, stunningly plotted, deeply etched."
"Overpowering."
"High octane…The righteous indignation that fuels his tale of cops, cartels, and the near-apocalyptic havoc they can create is, to use a sadly appropriate word, addictive."
"With corruption, violence, and a love story to boot, [The Cartel] is sure to have you grasping at the edge of your seat."
"A magnum opus…[Winslow] is to the Mexican drug wars what James Ellroy is to LA noir."
"One of the best thriller writers on the planet…Winslow has written an epic, gritty south-of-the-border Godfather for our time."
"A sort of Game of Thrones of the Mexican drug wars, a multipart, intricately plotted, blood-soaked epic that tells the story of how America's unquenchable appetite for illegal drugs has brought chaos to our southern neighbors and darkened our own political and criminal culture."
"Here is fiction based on the best journalistic sources, with lively dialogue, timely revelations, and overall the pace and feel of an exploded documentary…A brilliant and informative work of fiction about a nightmare world that flourishes in the bright light of day."
"A grand and gripping epic novel."
"A Wagernian epic of murder and vengeance..The Cartel is as much a work of meticulous journalism as artful fiction…[with] skillfully drawn characters."
"An adrenaline rush, addictive as crack, and epic…Winslow deals in corruption, subversion, and revenge with an intensity that makes him irresistible."
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