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The Power of the Dog

Don Winslow

539 pages

About this book

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.

Themes
Dark & BroodingGrimdarkThrilling & PropulsiveThought-ProvokingInescapable moral compromiseSystemic institutional corruptionThe human cost of addictionCyclical violence and consequence
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