Adesso la lotta per il controllo del traffico uccide diecimila persone l’anno, che diventano altrettanti orfani, vendette, traumatizzati. 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. Art gets assigned to Mexico where he meets the Barrera family who feeds him the intel to destroy most of the existing heroin trade and poppy fields. Art later learns that the Barreras used him to eliminate the competition and give them the opportunity to set up an organization that will get rich running cocaine from South America into the United States.

Beginning in the late seventies and stretching over a near thirty year period, Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog follows organized crime and the devastation left in its wake. at the end of the day or the end of the world, there are no seperate souls. We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together." 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 contra : pues únicamente que yo soy más tierno que el día de la madre y no leo a gusto novelas con tanto realismo. Vamos, que no es mi estilo de lectura. Winslow creates one character in a particularly contrived fashion. She’s a young woman who decides to become the law in a small town – no other cop will do the job so she decides to become the sheriff. She becomes like a surrogate daughter to Keller and his girlfriend and guess what happens to her? The same thing that happens to every non-corrupt cop in Mexico. In comics, this term is called the “women in refrigerators” trope, where a female character is hurt/killed purely to provide motivation for the male character. That’s what her role in this story is for Keller. In other words, lazy bullshit writing.Si HBO hiciera una serie basada en El poder del perro, me olvidaría rápido de Narcos. Si Scorsese la adaptara a la gran pantalla podríamos volver a ver algo al nivel de Goodfellas. Si Villeneuve volviera a rodar una escenaza en la frontera como la de Sicario con el material que se narra aquí, nos daría un jamacuco de la tensión. 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. Sufrir no tanto por las escenas crueles y sangrientas de torturas, que sí... si no más por la consciencia de que las tramas de corrupción e intereses políticos y eclesiásticos tejidas alrededor del narcotráfico, seguro son producto de una gran labor de documentación.

Mentioning this is almost beside the point. Once you start reading, you’re going to finish. Pointing out clichés in the characters is like bemoaning the view from the top of a roller coaster. What matters is how all these characters interact, use each other, con each other, hurt each other. Unfortunately, he also writes lines like: "Then the elevator doors slide open and water pours out, like a scene from a bad, grotesque horror film." Definitely read this one if you like action, well-written characters and books that will grip the living hell out of you. El mal existe y el término entraña horrores que no podían ni imaginar.” Esta novela, como su antecesora El poder del perro, es un espectáculo del horror, tan sangrienta y despiadada como lo pueda ser la fantasía de Juego de Tronos, pero con el añadido de terror que le otorga el atributo de la realidad, la constancia de que todo esto ha sucedido y sigue sucediendo al ladito nuestro, de que todo se hace por dinero, por poder y hasta por mera diversión o placer.

What has been the toll on human rights?

They are regarded so highly not just because of their story narrative and the compelling characters but because they have lived on the streets and have experienced exactly the sort of violence and gang culture they write about so eloquently. There’s only a couple things I’m even going to say since I’m so late to this party. First, if you are in need of a sensitivity reader or a trigger warning this is NOT the book for you. Me, on the other hand???? I looked a little something like this upon meeting the Barrera brothers . . . . . Encadenados a la misma guerra, se encuentran Nora Hayden, una hermosa prostituta de alto standing adiestrada para hacer enloquecer a los hombres; el padre Parada, un cura católico confidente de esta y empeñado en ayudar al pueblo, y Billy Boy Callan, un chico taciturno, convertido en asesino a sueldo por azar.