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

by Don Winslow

On the American side, an army of DEA, INS, ATF, FBI and Customs agents are poised in the area across from the tunnel, waiting to rush the exact location as soon as the tunnel party radios in. “Un-fucking-real,” Shag Wallace says when they get down to the bottom. “Someone dumped a lot of money into this.” “Someone ran a lot of money through it,” Art answers. He turns to Ramos. “We know this was Méndez, not the Barreras?” “It’s Güero's,” Ramos says. “What, someone show him a video of The Great Escape?” Shag asks. “Let me know when we cross the border,” Ramos says to Art. “I’d just be guessing,” Art answers. “Christ, how far does this thing go?” Fourteen hundred feet, give or take, is how they pace it out before they get to the next vertical shaft. An iron ladder bolted to the concrete walls leads up to a bolted hatch.