The Cartel: A white-knuckle drug war thriller

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The supposed good guys do terrible things in the name of justice and the bad guys are both vile and disturbingly human. A me disturbano di più le 715 pagine, un po’ troppe: soprattutto considerando che ho avuto la sensazione di più inizi e più finali.

A ubiquitous theme in Don Winslow’s brilliant writing is an atavistic examination of power as a force of nature.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. By the time he's through, it's pretty clear which agencies are involved and why and how they're all connected. Aún así, el ritmo imprimido a la historia te atrapa rápido y no puedes soltar el libro ni parar de sufrir sabiendo que no está nada alejada de la realidad. Yo soy como esos tipos, piensa Art, arrastrado hacia Tío (el jefe narco) como un bebedor a la botella.

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. So I my rating this read 5 out of 12, is for the author not being able to keep me interested, although I was also distracted by my life at the time, so this is yet another book from the Noughties, that I need to re-read. Keller, for instance, is half-Mexican, comes from barrios, and is suitably tortured by his past actions and mistakes. Getting people clean is a long, expensive, intensive, expensive, difficult, and expensive process that embodies the notion of one step forward, two (or three, or four) steps back.Durante la larga guerra contra los rebeldes marxistas, más de ciento cincuenta mil personas fueron asesinadas, y otras cuarenta mil desaparecieron. Written in fast-paced present tense The Power of the Dog has something very much in common with its subject matter; after the first hit, you’re hooked. This is one of the most graphic books I’ve ever read, and that’s saying something, since my prurient interest leads me to seek these things out. Sin ellos, la cocaína y la marihuana serían como las naranjas, y en lugar de ganar miles de millones pasándolas de contrabando, yo ganaría unos pocos centavos trabajando como un negro en algún campo de California, recogiéndolas. My only complaint is that the end of the book seems a bit less ambitious and kind of a let down compared to the build up.