The Power Of The Dog

I really enjoyed Don Wilson's drug war novel, The Power Of The Dog (2006) which takes place in the 70s and 80s. Winslow apparently did five years of research in writing the novel that takes the reader from Sinaloa province of Mexico to places like Tijuana, San Diego, Boston to introduce the mafia as players in the drug game, Central America-where drugs and guns are exchanged to fight communism in the Reagan era, and Columbia-which is the epic center of cocaine production. There is an equally impressive cast of characters that populate those exotic locations: Art Keller obsessive DEA agent out for revenge, the drug kingpin Barrerra brothers, Nora Hayden the high class prostitute with vengeance on her mind, Sean Callan, a Boston hit man with ice running in his veins, among other colorful characters. I look forward to reading Winslow's follow-up: The Cartel. It was an entertaining story based on real historical events that were well-researched.