The fast-paced and thrilling sequel to Don Winslow's epic drug novel, The Power of the Dog.
Don Winslow has worked as a movie theatre manager, a production assistant, and as a private investigator. In addition to being a novelist he now works as an independent consultant in issues involving litigation arising from criminal behaviour. His novels include The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, California Fire and Life, The Power of the Dog, The Winter of Frankie Machine and The Dawn Patrol. In 2012 Savages was released as a blockbuster film.
Don Winslow delivers his longest and finest novel yet in The
Cartel. This is the War and Peace of dope-war books. Tense, brutal,
wildly atmospheric, stunningly plotted, deeply etched. It’s got the
jazz-dog feel of a shot of pure meth.
*James Ellroy*
Sensationally good, even after the near-perfection of The Power of
the Dog. Less of a sequel than an integral part of a solid-gold
whole.
*Lee Child*
The Cartel is a gut-punch of a novel. Big, ambitious, violent and
widely entertaining, Don Winslow's latest is an absolute
must-read.
*Harlan Coben*
Don Winslow is one of the most exciting and well-researched crime
writers of modern times. The Cartel is a masterpiece of
storytelling.
*Simon Kernick*
Astoundingly ambitious…Draws on real events and people as it
chronicles Mexico’s drug wars…Masterfully organised and teeming
with memorable characters, it is unlikely to be bettered this
year.
*Sunday Times (Thriller of the month)*
Don Winslow has done it again. The Cartel is a first rate
edge-of-your-seat thriller for sure, but it also continues
Winslow’s incisive reporting on the dangers and intricacies of the
world we live in. There is no higher mark for a storyteller than to
both educate and entertain. With Winslow these aspects are entwined
like strands of DNA. He’s a master and this book proves it once
again.
*Michael Connelly*
A magnum opus coming in June from Don Winslow, who is to the
Mexican drug wars what James Ellroy is to L.A. Noir. It's a
long-awaited sequel to one of his greatest, The Power of the
Dog.
*New York Times*
Ten years ago Don Winslow published The Power of the Dog,
essentially the Godfather of the Mexican drug wars, an epic,
blood-drenched tale of greed and murder. Now he’s returned with a
sequel, The Cartel, which may well be the most relentlessly bleak
and corpse-strewn crime novel ever written….Winslow brilliantly
brings to life the savagery of the conflicts between rival cartels
and also the heroism of the ordinary folk, mostly women, who dare
to fight back. The Cartel is unforgettable and genuinely
tragic.
*Mail on Sunday (Thriller of the week)*
You don't have to read Don Winslow's The Power of the Dog to get
swept away by The Cartel, its ripped-from-the-headlines sequel, but
you should. You should try to get your hands on everything
Winslow's written, because he's one of the best thriller writers on
the planet. You've read the headlines about the decapitations in
Juarez, the kidnappings in Mexico City, the mass graves and
battling cartels and corrupt politicians and police, the daily
casualties of the Mexican-American drugs wars, which made you
second-guess that Club Med vacation. An epic, gritty
south-of-the-border Godfather for this time.
*Esquire*
[A] riveting expose of a modern tragedy where the fast pace of the
thriller narrative never stumbles over the painstaking attention
paid to detail and background… his most powerful writing to date…As
a reader, it's natural to want to immerse yourself again and again
in the world Winslow depicts. But this, the author reminds us, is
not wholly fiction: The Cartel is dedicated to a long but
necessarily partial list of journalists murdered or "disappeared"
during the period covered in the book…[Winslow is] a thriller
writer of remarkable moral depth.
*Sunday Herald*
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