The Cartel: A white-knuckle drug war thriller

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Logra una transición perfecta entre el alcance de todo a lo que puede llegar y la intimidad con la que lo hace, y para mostrarnos desde un panorama general como para darnos los detalles más pequeños, granito a granito de arena. Definitely read this one if you like action, well-written characters and books that will grip the living hell out of you. The people put in a position to try and stop these criminals have to deal with the reality of the situation. I spent most of the time sitting poolside, sipping on drinks with neon colors and umbrellas floating in the ice.

styled prostitution ring, Chinese arms dealings, and genocide in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Columbia in one book, and under the umbrella of America’s war on drugs. Keller, for instance, is half-Mexican, comes from barrios, and is suitably tortured by his past actions and mistakes. I got about 50 pages in and knew that I should have gotten around to this earlier and was peeved at myself for wasting time this year on more disappointing reads. La storia ha per protagonista il poliziotto Arthur Keller, un sottoposto duro e puro che finirà per sacrificare venti anni della propria vita per vendicare l’uccisione di un uomo della sua squadra.

En el camino, tenemos una historia suburbana de la intromisión estadounidense en América Latina y la captura paralela de los gobiernos del área por la inmensa marea de dinero de la droga que lo envolvió todo.

In popular crime fiction, this is frequently demonstrated by the tough Irish cop with whom no one will mess.Don Winslow sabe definir muy bien a sus personajes y consigue despertarte sentimientos hacia cada uno de ellos, aún siendo personajes bastante típicos en estas historias. En El Salvador, escuadrones de la muerte de extrema derecha asesinaron a políticos izquierdistas y líderes sindicales. Like in the best of Le Carré, the best parts of these novels contemplates the evils committed by bureaucracies trying to maintain control (the Catholic Church) or power (Mexican government), or ideological visions (CIA and DEA). Todo estaba aprobado y apoyado por el país que se presenta ante el mundo como el líder de la democracia y la libertad.

But like the best of Historical Fiction, it is able to convey the temperature and altitude of the real world it is describing. La única pega, como lector en español de España, es ver a todos los personajes: Estadounidenses, mafiosos de origen italiano o irlandés hablando como mexicanos, que si pinche por allí, que si la chingada por allá. 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. 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.Art Keller is a former CIA agent who got disgusted with running assassination missions in Vietnam and jumped to the newly formed Drug Enforcement Agency where he thought he might be able to do some good.