The Cartel: A white-knuckle drug war thriller

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You know those addictive tv shows that you can't help but binge-watch on Netflix, Prime, or HBONow all weekend? Un horror que aumenta infinitamente si confiamos en las palabras del autor: “Hay personajes ficticios y en más de una ocasión he mezclado y fundido acontecimientos; pero hay muy poco en el libro que no haya realmente sucedido. Close your eyes after reading these novels and you almost can see how close to the truth these fictions can be. These characters are all suffering from their own needs, their own stories they can't seem to escape, and their own cold pragmatism. By the time he's through, it's pretty clear which agencies are involved and why and how they're all connected.

Destaca en todos sus elementos: Descripción, personajes, diálogos, ambientación histórica, suspense, trama. Por mucho que se invadan países, se quemen cosechas, se ponga en el poder a dictadores, mientras haya demanda en nuestro primer mundo el negocio seguirá existiendo y la droga llegará a los consumidores, caiga quien caiga, muera quien muera y haya que corromper a quien sea necesario.Blood gets spilled and Art’s feud with the Barreras gets personal, but Art’s attempt to legally break up the Mexican pipeline are thwarted by his own government’s secret programs to fund anti-communist efforts in South America by allowing or enabling the trade to flourish as the crack epidemic hits inner cites while Nancy Reagan tells kids to Just Say No! UU y en la que se detallan las conexiones entre los narcos, grupos políticos, cuerpos policiales y organizaciones paramilitares y la propia CIA en negocios de todo tipo.

But this isn't the history of boring school textbooks, it's the stuff of films and sadly, reality – shit that makes you interested and actually think. Running from the mid-1970s until the turn of the century, Winslow’s historical fiction illustrates the difference between the stated public policy of America’s drug war against the covert backing of the drug trade to keep communism out of Central and South America. O ha una grande fantasia, o una grande conoscenza della materia che racconta (la seconda non esclude la prima). Aquí torturan, violan, planean atrocidades, se alian hasta con el demonio para conseguir pasta o poder, para detener a los comunistas o a los narcos. Muchos cayeron en el intento, otros muchos arruinaron su vida y la de sus familias, pues hasta para hacer el bien hace falta poder y no se consigue poder siguiendo las reglas.Also, for a novel that includes a vivid depiction of some kid dunked head-first into an overflowing outhouse, Winslow is surprisingly squeamish when it comes to people getting buggered by a hot poker.