The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

by Don Winslow

maquiladoras left for even cheaper Chinese labor.

The last of the old-school editors, “El Búho”—the Owl—scans the city room looking for the red meat of a factual error, the scent of a stylistic sin, or the very whiff of literary pretentiousness.

Mexico, the land of pyramids and palaces, deserts and jungles, mountains and beaches, markets and gardens, boulevards and cobblestoned streets, broad plazas and hidden courtyards, is now known as a slaughter ground. And for what? So North Americans can get high.

Every war you fight, you fight on three fronts: a shooting war; a political war; a media war. And that you can’t win one without the others.”