The Border
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4.5 • 118 Ratings
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Publisher Description
‘The year’s best thriller’ The Times, Books of the Year
The 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 over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: The War On Drugs.
Now elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, 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 of narcos, cops, addicts, politicians, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country.
The Border is an unflinching portrait of modern America, a story of – and for – our time.
‘A huge, immersive, violent, compassionate read’ Ian Rankin
‘Hugely entertaining’ Stephen King
‘Brutal and brilliant, this is crime’s Game of Thrones’ Sun
‘One of the great literary achievements of the century so far’ Daily Telegraph
‘Such crime writing deserves nothing less than a Pulitzer Prize’ Evening Standard
‘A new crime classic … a stirring, stupendous novel’ Sunday Times
‘He is a pleasure to read’ The Times
‘A furious, impassioned novel’ Washington Post
‘Devastating and timely … a hybrid The Godfather and War and Peace’ New York Times
‘A gift to all discerning crime readers’ Financial Times
About the author
Don Winslow is author of nineteen acclaimed, award-winning, international bestsellers – including the No.1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, The Force, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Savages was made into a critically acclaimed film by three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone. The Cartel is scheduled to begin production in 2019 and The Force has been adapted by Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet and Oscar nominee Scott Frank for director James Mangold and 20th Century Fox. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer, and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In bestseller Winslow's stunning conclusion to his monumental Cartel trilogy (after 2015's The Cartel), Art Keller, now the head of the DEA, has spent decades waging a relentless campaign against the Mexican drug cartels. It's now late 2012, and Ad n Barrera, Keller's longtime nemesis and the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, is missing and presumed dead. Violence soon escalates as the fractured remnants of Barrera's organization struggle against a host of new players vying for control of the drug trade. The bottom has fallen out of the marijuana market, and heroin has once again become the drug of choice for a new generation of Americans hooked on opiate painkillers. When fentanyl, a lethal new synthetic opiate, hits the streets, not only are poor minority users dying but well-to-do white kids are overdosing in record numbers. Keller knows like nobody else that America's "war on drugs" has been a complete failure, and he opts for a daring new clandestine approach: instead of targeting the suppliers in Mexico, he goes after the money in the States. With clear-eyed determination and an almost Shakespearean grasp of human nature, Winslow takes readers on an unforgettable journey.
Customer Reviews
Riveting conclusion to the trilogy
This grips you. Complex, interwoven Strands of storyline, great characters, violent scenes with an underlying Wilfred Owen-like pity of war. Utterly compelling
Yet another classic Winslow
Yet again a classic;
the third instalment is maybe slightly less explicitly bloody than the ‘Power of the Dog’ or ‘The Cartel’ but certainly as much, or even more so, a captivating read. For every Winslow fan an absolute must...!
Thank you for hours of reading and entertainment ...