The Border
A Novel
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4.3 • 890 Ratings
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Publisher Description
ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Contains an excerpt from Don Winslow’s explosive new novel, City on Fire!
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Washington Post • NPR • Financial Times • The Guardian • Booklist • New Statesman • Daily Telegraph • Irish Times • Dallas Morning News • Sunday Times • New York Post
"A big, sprawling, ultimately stunning crime tableau." – Janet Maslin, New York Times
"You can't ask for more emotionally moving entertainment." – Stephen King
"One of the best thriller writers on the planet." – Esquire
The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force
What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you’re on?
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. His obsession to defeat the world’s most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin?the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adán Barrera?has left him bloody and scarred, 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 even more chaos and suffering in his beloved Mexico. But not just there.
Barrera’s final legacy is the heroin epidemic scourging America. Throwing himself into the gap to stem the deadly flow, Keller finds himself surrounded by enemies?men who want to kill him, politicians who want to destroy him, and worse, the unimaginable?an incoming administration that’s in bed with the very drug traffickers that Keller is trying to bring down.
Art Keller is at war with not only the cartels, but with his own government. And the long fight has taught him more than he ever imagined. Now, he learns the final lesson?there are no borders.
In a story that moves from deserts of Mexico to Wall Street, from the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington, D.C., Winslow follows a new generation of narcos, the cops who fight them, street traffickers, addicts, politicians, money-launderers, real-estate moguls, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country.
A shattering tale of vengeance, violence, corruption and justice, this last novel in Don Winslow’s magnificent, award-winning, internationally bestselling trilogy is packed with unforgettable, drawn-from-the-headlines scenes. Shocking in its brutality, raw in its humanity, The Border is an unflinching portrait of modern America, a story of—and for—our time.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The last book in Don Winslow’s devastating Cartel trilogy is epic in scale and brutally personal in its depiction of the impact of the violence unleashed by the war on drugs. Thrilling and politically charged, The Border follows DEA director Art Keller as he confronts an unprecedented flow of heroin into the U.S. two decades into his battle against Mexican drug cartels. Even more worrying, Keller can’t tell whose side the combative new American president is really on. The novel’s action scenes are intense, but it’s Winslow’s clear-eyed and nonjudgmental empathy for everyone trapped in the conflict that makes the biggest impact.
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
Went to far
I have read Winslow’s ‘cartel’ series and don’t understand why he went full CNN in this book. I can accept some political leaning but he is not subtle in attacking half the US population as idiots. Disappointing end to an otherwise good trilogy.
Not his best
It’s too bad as the first three books were great. Hard to follow, many names and places jumping around. Didn’t care for jabs at the political scene either.
Fantastic
What a fantastic journey this was, awesome book! Thank You!