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

by Don Winslow

He’d signed the divorce papers shortly after getting word of the murders of Pilar Méndez and her two children. A simple acknowledgment of an inevitable reality, he wondered, or a form of penance? He knew that he shared some responsibility for the children’s deaths, that he’d helped to set that hideous train in motion the moment he whispered into Tío’s ear the false information that Güero Méndez was the imaginary Source Chupar. So when the word came through intelligence channels—the rumors that the Barreras had decapitated Pilar and thrown her children off a bridge in Colombia—Art finally picked up a pen and signed the divorce papers that been on his desk for months. He gave full custody of the children to Althie. “I’m grateful, Art,” she said. “But why now?” Punishment, he thought. I lose two kids, too.