The Cartel (Power of the Dog #2)

by Don Winslow

“It’s Gloria,” Tompkins says. Adán knows what Tompkins is going to say before he says it. His daughter is dead. Gloria was born with cystic lymphangioma, a deformation of the head, face, and throat that is eventually fatal. And incurable—all Adán’s millions, all of his power, could not buy his daughter a normal life. A little over four years ago, Gloria’s health took a turn for the worse. With Adán’s blessing, his then wife, Lucía, an American citizen, took their twelve-year-old daughter to San Diego, to the Scripps clinics that housed the best specialists in the world. A month later Lucía phoned him at his safe house in Mexico. Come now, she said. They say she has days, maybe only hours… Adán smuggled himself—like his own product—across the border, in the trunk of a specially outfitted car. Art Keller was waiting for him in the hospital parking lot. “My daughter,” Adán said. “She’s fine,” Keller said. Then the DEA agent jabbed a needle into Adán’s neck and the world went black.