The Cartel: A novelA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping, true-to-life, ripped-from-the-headlines epic story of power, corruption, revenge, and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American drug wars. It’s 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world’s most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller’s partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly—the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down. His obsession with justice—or is it revenge?—becomes a ruthless struggle that stretches from the cities, mountains, and deserts of Mexico to Washington’s corridors of power to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona. Keller fights his personal battle against the devastated backdrop of Mexico’s drug war, a conflict of unprecedented scale and viciousness, as cartels vie for power and he comes to the final reckoning with Barrera—and himself—that he always knew must happen. The Cartel is a story of revenge, honor, and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul. It is the story of the war on drugs and the men—and women—who wage it. |
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User Review - Hagelstein - www.librarything.comThe Cartel is fictional, but inhabited by the spilled blood of the thousands of victims of the Mexican drug wars. The main characters, Art Keller and Adan Barrera, are on opposite sides. Both featured ... Read full review
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User Review - dbsovereign - LibraryThingA deep dive into the Mexican drug cartels and the lives of its members as well as the folks hunting them. With corruption running rampant, the characters struggle to contain their avaricious ways ... Read full review
Contents
Section 21 | 419 |
Section 22 | 435 |
Section 23 | 442 |
Section 24 | 445 |
Section 25 | 458 |
Section 26 | 463 |
Section 27 | 477 |
Section 28 | 482 |
Section 9 | 113 |
Section 10 | 136 |
Section 11 | 155 |
Section 12 | 173 |
Section 13 | 201 |
Section 14 | 206 |
Section 15 | 237 |
Section 16 | 281 |
Section 17 | 317 |
Section 18 | 367 |
Section 19 | 385 |
Section 20 | 411 |
Section 29 | 517 |
Section 30 | 519 |
Section 31 | 554 |
Section 32 | 559 |
Section 33 | 560 |
Section 34 | 573 |
Section 35 | 576 |
Section 36 | 584 |
Section 37 | 614 |
Section 38 | 619 |
Section 39 | 623 |
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