The Cartel

It is 2004, and Art Keller has spent thirty years of the drug war locked in a blood feud with Adán Barrera, head of El Federación, the world's mightiest cartel and the man who murdered Keller's partner. Putting Barrera behind bars cost Keller the woman he loves, the beliefs he held dear and the life he wanted. Now Barrera has escaped from a federal prison in California, intent on rebuilding the empire Keller broke, and a bounty of two million dollars sits on Keller's head. Their struggle, reaching from Sinaloa and Veracruz to the corridors of Washington, runs across ten years. Don Winslow's novel is the second in his Power of the Dog series.

Stephen King said this novel and The Power of the Dog swept him up completely, and that readers could not ask more of emotionally moving entertainment.