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Narrated by:
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Ray Porter
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Written by:
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Don Winslow
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From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines 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 30 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 10-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 true-to-life story of 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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Great Don Winslow and Ray Porter
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A great and gruesome book of the the Cartel.
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Fantastic and narrator is excellent!
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The book reveals the inner workings of a system designed to stabilize, shall we say, the drug trade rather than eradicate it. Too many people from all echelons of society and across many a border profit from it. This book is extremely well researched and notwithstanding its fictional side, is nothing short of an academic grade treaty on the drug trade.
The narration is excellent, save maybe on female voices where the narrator tends to adopt the same high pitch tone, which quickly gets old. But really great rendition otherwise.
An important Pulitzer worthy work
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Good story
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