the Power Of The Dog - Rilegato

Winslow, Don

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ISBN 10: 0375405380 ISBN 13: 9780375405389

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2005

Riassunto

The seemingly disparate lives of a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, and a priest intertwine around a nexus of the drug trade involving the Latin American drug cartels, the American underworld, and the U.S. government, from the rise of the Mexican drug Federacion in the 1970s to the present day. 40,000 first printing.

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“The war on drugs is powerfully dramatized in Winslow’s ambitious, dense and gritty latest . . . Winslow’s depth of research and unflagging attention to detail give the story both heft and immediacy, and his staccato, present-tense prose shifts easily among wildly disparate settings and multiple points of view. A complex plot, well-drawn characters and plenty of double-crossing make this a thinking person’s narco-thriller.”–Publishers Weekly

“This book comes at you like a champion boxer, deft and probing, and bristling with menace. Aiming for both the head and the gut, it connects solidly with every punch.”
–Dan Fesperman, author of The Warlord’s Son

“The Power of the Dog is the most compelling crime novel I’ve read in several years. It’s sharply written, vertiginously fast, and best of all it’s about something. In the unholy trinity of narcotics, dollars and politics Winslow has located our heart of darkness. This is a spectacular novel, disturbing and unforgettable.”
–T. Jefferson Parker, author of California Girl

“With an epic’s scope and a freight train’s rush, The Power of the Dog is an absolute page-turner. I couldn’t put it down and I was sorry when it ended. As always, Don Winslow delivers!”–S.J. Rozan, author of Absent Friends

“From the heart-wrenching very first sentence I was hooked. A soaring, blazing saga of the real drug world, it is masterly, moving, and compassionate: an instant classic. It’s been a long wait since Winslow’s wondrous California Fire and Life. Was it worth the wait? Was it ever, and then some.”
–Ken Bruen, author of The Killing of the Tinkers
 
“Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog is a great read. Intricate, powerful, and fierce, it takes the reader into the moral labyrinth of the international drug trade and the men who lose their souls along the way. Winslow’s knowledge and insight have never been more fully realized. I believed every word of it.”
–Robert Ferrigno, author of The Wake-Up
 
“The Power of the Dog is a steaming cauldron of crime, corruption, and cabals, an epic of Godfather proportions with just enough fact sprinkled into the stew to make this one fabulous fable.”–Andrew Vachss, author of Down Here

“The Power of the Dog is the first great dope novel since Dog Soldiers thirty years ago. It’s frightening and sad, with a superbly sustained intensity. It’s a beautifully compressed vision of hell, with all its attendant moral madness.”–James Ellroy, author of The Cold Six Thousand

L'autore

Don Winslow has worked as a private investigator in London, New York City, and elsewhere in the United States, and as a consultant to law firms and insurance companies for more than fifteen years.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375405380
• ISBN 13: 9780375405389
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 539