The border
Winslow, Don, 1953-2020
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A propulsive story of revenge, corruption and the struggle for justice set across vividly-rendered depictions of Washington DC and Guatemala. Praised by Ian Rankin as 'huge, immersive, violent, compassionate'. `A huge, immersive, violent, compassionate read' Ian Rankin`The year's best thriller' The Times, Books of the YearThe explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force.The war has come home.For more than forty years,Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's longest conflict: the war on drugs. His obsession with defeating the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel - Adn Barrera - has cost him the people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul.Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created thirty more that are wreaking chaos in his beloved Mexico. And not just there.Fighting to end the heroin epidemic scourging America, Keller finds himself surrounded by an incoming administration that's in bed with the very drug traffickers that Keller is trying to bring down.From the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington, D.C., Winslow follows a new generation ofnarcos, cops, addicts, politicians, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country.A shattering tale of vengeance, corruption and justice, The Borderis an unflinchingportrait of modern America, a story of - and for - our time.
Main title:
The border / Don Winslow.
Author:
Winslow, Don, 1953-, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020.
Collation:
720 pages : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2019.
ISBN:
9780008227579 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6
LC class:
PS3573.I5326
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
346672