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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) |
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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| 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 |
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Ratings: 4.37 From 25640 Users | 2138 ReviewsJudgment Epithetical Books The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog #1)
I've owned this book for years but kept putting it off until now. 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. This is the type of book that doesn't come around too often. A book that finds the perfect balance between it's attention to detail and research, it's sensitivity to character, and it's great structure, all wrapped up in passionate prose. Imagine a mix of Traffic,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
Many reviews already written and a comprehensive synopsis on offer already. Thoroughly enjoyed this gritty, violent novel about the quest for power in the drug wars between the U.S.A and South America. The action takes place between the 1970's and late 1990's. It quite an intense read in places. Really no winners here and often difficult to know who the "good guys" are meant to be. Saw this recommended by author Adrian McKinty on his blog and decided to check it out. Very glad I did.
As much a textbook on the political and economics of the war on drugs as it is a thriller, Winslow's book is as entertaining as it is disturbing. Sadly, there is far too much nonfiction in the pages, nonfiction that shed a glowing light on American foreign policy.My thanks to the folks at the The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group for giving me the opportunity to read and discuss this and many other fine books.
This is not a novel I would compliment for it's stylistic prose, its character development, or it's originality in terms of plot: this is a novel that were it to be true is nothing short of a devastating indictment of the War on drugs. My rating of this book is based on its subject matter and its research and how it affects me as a reader.Normally, I throw up my eyebrows in quizzical fashion when reading reviews that complain about the lack of verisimilitude, or that the author somehow has
Epic in story and substance, THE POWER OF THE DOG is the crime equivalent of a broad spanning fantasy novel. Told over a thirty year time frame, Winslow's masterful tale of cross border drug running, corrupt cops, and gangsters is much more than a bloody swipe at alphabet agency politicking, with themes comprising vengeance, betrayal, misguided justice, and the illusion of redemption rife. Through Art Keller, Winslow delivers a rich and deeply satisfying plot driven by a tainted protagonist
Jim Gauer ruined this variety of literature for me. I am not comparing authors here. If the project is to reveal social mechanisms and functions through plot, then my preferences certainly are with one at the expense of the other. This is a strong three star novel, likely 3.4 for those crunching or counting. Don Winslow certainly predicates plot above language. I think that is a popular gambit. It doesn't work for me. I would've placed the book down were it not for the scene involving the Mexico
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