tripledigitken
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Power of the Dog- a book review
Recently this book was mentioned and recommended here. I just finished reading this 600+page novel in less than a week. Most Nomads will recognize
events in the book which seem very familiar, as do the locations as well. It is available on Kindle too.
Highly recommended.
review from Amazon.....
Book Description
Publication Date: April 26, 2005
From Don Winslow (“A writer so good you almost want to keep him to yourself”—Ian Rankin), an electrifying new novel of love and revenge, politics and
influence, corruption and honor. Moving at breakneck speed, it tells a riveting, sometimes harrowing story set in the shifting nexus of power among
the Latin American drug cartels, the American mob, and the U.S. government.
Spanning the years from the rise of the Mexican drug Federación in the 1970s to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s to the vicious drug wars of the
1990s, the action ranges from Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen and the halls of Washington to the streets of Tijuana and the deserts of the American
Southwest.
The players: a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, a priest. Caught up in the war on drugs, willingly or not, each is trying to escape the
sins of the past while negotiating the treacherous currents of the present. Their seemingly disparate lives—taking shape on one side of the law or the
other, or straddling both—slowly converge as they struggle to overcome, in any way possible, the “power of the dog.”
From the jungles of Latin America to the vicious netherworld of the California–Mexico border, this is the war on drugs you haven’t seen—its
devastations and deliriums, its alliances and betrayals, its pawns and kings.
A masterpiece of epic storytelling, The Power of the Dog is Don Winslow at the very top of his form.
[Edited on 2-9-2012 by tripledigitken]
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wanna sell me your "old" copy?
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tripledigitken
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| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
wanna sell me your "old" copy? |
It's on my Kindle, sorry!
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#@&*%^$ technology......
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I'm waiting on the mail at this moment. I was going to buy the Kindle edition, but after reading the reviews, this just seemed like a book I would
enjoy holding the old fashioned way.
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FYI all you readers, especially older surfers will really enjoy his other books. The only one I didn't care for was Sartori, but the guy has a real
knack for writing.
Dawn Patrol, Frankie Machine, Gentleman Hour, all really good reading. 
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
Recently this book was mentioned and recommended here. I just finished reading this 600+page novel in less than a week. Most Nomads will recognize
events in the book which seem very familiar, as do the locations as well. It is available on Kindle too.
Highly recommended.
review from Amazon.....
Book Description
Publication Date: April 26, 2005
From Don Winslow (“A writer so good you almost want to keep him to yourself”—Ian Rankin), an electrifying new novel of love and revenge, politics and
influence, corruption and honor. Moving at breakneck speed, it tells a riveting, sometimes harrowing story set in the shifting nexus of power among
the Latin American drug cartels, the American mob, and the U.S. government.
Spanning the years from the rise of the Mexican drug Federación in the 1970s to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s to the vicious drug wars of the
1990s, the action ranges from Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen and the halls of Washington to the streets of Tijuana and the deserts of the American
Southwest.
The players: a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, a priest. Caught up in the war on drugs, willingly or not, each is trying to escape the
sins of the past while negotiating the treacherous currents of the present. Their seemingly disparate lives—taking shape on one side of the law or the
other, or straddling both—slowly converge as they struggle to overcome, in any way possible, the “power of the dog.”
From the jungles of Latin America to the vicious netherworld of the California–Mexico border, this is the war on drugs you haven’t seen—its
devastations and deliriums, its alliances and betrayals, its pawns and kings.
A masterpiece of epic storytelling, The Power of the Dog is Don Winslow at the very top of his form.
[Edited on 2-9-2012 by tripledigitken] |
Glad you read it. It's certainly a page turner, that's for sure 
While (obviously) some of the situations are implausible, I think he's hit every major "event" in the rise of the drug trade. And as anyone who has
spent any length of time in Mexico knows, they love rumors and conspiracy theories almost as much as Americans do, and Winslow has managed to fold all
the rumors, escandolos, and innuendos surrounding the drug trade into the plot.
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YES ! ! !
I totally agree.
Over the last year, I think i've read the most of the Winslow collection.
GREAT writer.... I've done a few all nighters reading his stuff.
Dawn Patrol, Power of the Dog, Savages, The Winter of Frankie Machine, California Fire & Life, The Dawn Patrol, (great ones to start with...), .
. If you like this style of writing, you will love Winslow!
He frequently crosses political, ethnic, and cultural boundaries in a very suspenseful way.
BTW: Satori will be out as a Warner Bros. Movie (starring diCaprio) soon.... Set circa Post Korean War with some real twists...!
Enjoy!
djh
| Quote: | Originally posted by watizname
FYI all you readers, especially older surfers will really enjoy his other books. The only one I didn't care for was Sartori, but the guy has a real
knack for writing.
Dawn Patrol, Frankie Machine, Gentleman Hour, all really good reading.
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