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

by Don Winslow

There is nothing in this world. Nothing you can offer a man who’s lost everything—his family, his work, his friend, his hope, his trust, his belief in his own country. There’s nothing you can offer that man that means anything. But it turns out there is. Then Art understands—Cerberus isn’t a guard, he’s an usher. A panting, grinning, tongue-lolling doorman who eagerly invites you into the underworld. And you can’t resist.

“Because there is no justice, and you’re not serious about revenge. You’re not Mexican. There aren’t many things we take seriously, but vengeance is one of them.”

That the hardest thing in the world isn’t to refrain from committing an evil, it’s to stand up and stop one.