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The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

Don Winslow

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Mar 15, 2015 Steve rated it it was ok

Shelves: crime-mystery-noir

This one started out great, but with about 150 pages to go (it's well over 500), I found my interest waning. Characters started flattening out, repetitive gun battles where it seemed the major characters had an almost hobbit-like ability to survive, and a general sense of looseness as the epic subject (the drug wars) seemed to go beyond Winslow's pulpish grasp. There are a number of awesome, blood soaked scenes. A favorite of mine was early on where an Irish enforcer tries to lean too hard on a ...more

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Mar 01, 2013 Jessica rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, mexico

Definitely not one for the faint of heart, which is no surprise - it's hard to write a book about narcotraficantes without highlighting the extreme violence that surrounds the drug trade, which has only worsened in the time since Winslow wrote this. But more than that, I really appreciate Winslow's decision to show his story without obvious heroes and villains - in this world, it makes far more sense to me to have a cast where light and dark are blended in each character rather than forcing them ...more

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