The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

by Don Winslow

He has no interest in the world. “Then you don’t know what’s going on in Mexico,” Taylor says. “Not my problem.” “It’s not his problem,” Taylor says to Jiménez. “Tons of coke pouring across the border. Heroin. Meth. People getting killed, but it’s not Art Keller’s problem. He has bees to take care of.” Keller doesn’t answer. The so-called war on drugs is a revolving door—you take one guy out, someone else grabs the empty chair at the head of the table. It will never change, as long as the insatiable appetite for drugs is there. And it’s there, in the behemoth on this side of the border. What the suits will never understand or even acknowledge— The so-called Mexican drug problem isn’t the Mexican drug problem. It’s the American drug problem.