![]() ![]() On the side of the law stands Art "Killer" Keller, a former CIA field agent who worked for the DEA for 30 years a real loner, but he got his job done. It's in this slaughter ground that Winslow sets his story, an over-the-top action adventure novel based on broad research and framed as a personal battle between two major characters. the land of pyramids and palaces, deserts and jungles, mountains and beaches, markets and gardens. As one journalist character in the novel, a photographer from Ciudad Juarez, laments, "my country, Mexico - the land of writers and poets. ![]() And when they're not warring each other for territory and profits, the gangs employ bribery and intimidation right up to the highest levels of government in their embattled nation. That's only a small number of victims compared to the total number of Mexican citizens tortured and killed by the narco-gangsters during this time. The dedication of Don Winslow's novel The Cartel is nearly two pages long: a list of journalists who were either murdered or "disappeared" in Mexico between 20 - the period covered in this hugely hypnotic new thriller. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Cartel Author Don Winslow ![]()
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