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| Title | : | The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog #1) |
| Author | : | Don Winslow |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 542 pages |
| Published | : | May 9th 2006 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (first published 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Thriller. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery Thriller. Noir |
Don Winslow
Paperback | Pages: 542 pages Rating: 4.37 | 25640 Users | 2138 Reviews
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From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film).This novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Art Montana 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 hitman. And they are all trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federaci. 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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| Original Title: | The Power of the Dog |
| ISBN: | 1400096936 (ISBN13: 9781400096930) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Power of the Dog #1 |
| Characters: | Agent Art Keller,, Adán Barrera, Nora Hayden, Sean Callan |
| Literary Awards: | Barry Award Nominee for Best Novel (2006), Macavity Award Nominee for Best Mystery Novel (2006), Hammett Prize Nominee (2005), Dilys Award Nominee (2006), Deutscher Krimi Preis for 1. Platz International (2011) このミステリーがすごい！ for Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan (2010), Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize 日本冒険小説協会大賞特別賞 for Best Translated Novel (2009), Falcon Award (2010) |
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CIA, DEA, FBI, NSA, NAFTA, irish mob, italian mafia, cold warriors, sandanistas, contras, high-priced whores, corrupt priests, reagan, bush, giuliani, colombian druglords, mexican cartels, campesinos, gomeros, torture, despair, murder, etc. this is one sprawling motherfuck of a great book. this guy leaves lehane pelecanos and any of his contemporary crimers (um, except ellroy) in the dust. gotta read more of his shit... viva don winslow y donkey don powell!I'm torn on this one because on the one hand, the story is pretty solid. Winslow really unpacks the bureaucracy that makes the war on drugs so snarly. By the time he's through, it's pretty clear which agencies are involved and why and how they're all connected.Unfortunately, he also writes lines like: "Then the elevator doors slide open and water pours out, like a scene from a bad, grotesque horror film."And he does it A LOT. Winslow's good at distilling information, even generating a pretty
The Power of the Dog is a big, sweeping, epic tale. It is only 560 pages long and I say only because this novel is so intoxicatingly good that it is difficult to put it aside even for a moment. It is a novel not just about the drug war against the Mexican cartels, based loosely on real events, but it is a story about all kinds of people caught up in the war from the DEA agents who lost their regular lives, but not their souls, to the young kids who grew up to be killers, both on the streets of
Deliver my soul from the sword; my love from the power of the dog. Psalms 22:20A ubiquitous theme in Don Winslows brilliant writing is an atavistic examination of power as a force of nature. More than that, power as currency it is a neutral element, existing as a tool to be used for various reasons and in multiple contexts. There is the pre-human, foundational power of sinew, tooth and claw the muscular, violent power of strength and speed in martial contest seen in modern use as military
I don't read much science fiction anymore. When it was great, it was all about man and the Big Idea, or First Contact. It was all about the discovery of revealing concepts and bizarre things. But after the 80s, Speculative Fiction, as 'they' preferred to call it, brought more of a social consciousness to the stories and explored political structures and how they affected whatever new world we were in.It didn't take long for me to get sick of it and abandon the genre.What the...? Did Bill get his
Book had me like, Hands up, titties down, ass in the air!
A dark novel by Californian Don Winslow about the never-ending "war on drugs" and the various efforts of the U.S. government and its agencies to support or destabilize political regimes in Latin America (a/k/a geopolitical meddling), from the mid-70s thru the late 1990s Most of the novel centers on a Mexican crime family, an honorable DEA agent who slowly loses his soul, and a few Mafioso from NY. Well-researched but also extremely violent with repeated, cataclysmic collateral damage. However,
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