The Cartel

Don Winslow

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2004. El Federación, the most powerful drug organization in the world, has been exploded and the Mexican drug trade has settled out into several cartels that exist in a state of tenuous accord. The patron of El Federación, Adán Barrera, is in solitary in a San Diego prison. Art Keller, the DEA agent who put him there – and killed his brother and his uncle – is living at a New Mexican monastery, tending bees, the solitude and simple truths of the place a powerful antedote to his former ‘life of lies’. But when Barrera negotiates a deal that lets him serve out his time in a Mexican prison, a series of events is set off that undermines whatever accord existed between the cartels, and a war of unprecedented scale and viciousness erupts.

ISBN: 9781784750640 Category:

Description

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From the bestselling author of the acclaimed The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping true-to-life epic, ripped from the headlines, 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 Adan Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world’s most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller’s partner. Putting Barrera away costs 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.

The Cartel is a true-to-life story of power, corruption, revenge, honour and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul.
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‘Sensationally good’ LEE CHILD
‘Tense, brutal, wildly atmospheric, stunningly plotted’ JAMES ELLROY
‘A gut-punch of a novel… an absolute must-read’ HARLAN COBEN

Additional information

Weight 0.442 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 13 × 3.8 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

615

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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