num_pages: 560
description: The war on drugs is powerfully dramatized in Winslow's ambitious, dense and gritty latest (after 1999's California Fire and Life). Art Keller is a brilliant DEA agent who sometimes breaks the rules to serve justice. Adan Barrera is an urbane drug dealer whose charm masks his brutality. Nora Hayden is a high-class call girl whose heart is in the right place. And Sean Callan is a taciturn mob hit man, a stone-cold killer who just wants out of the life. Winslow follows these four characters and assorted extras as they cross paths over three decades in the international drug trade, from Keller's first encounter with Barrera in 1970s Mexico, through the drug cartels' corruption of government officials in the U.S. and Mexico governments, to a final showdown on the U.S. border in 1999. Winslow's depth of research and unflagging attention to detail give the story both heft and immediacy, and his staccato, present-tense prose shifts easily among wildly disparate settings and multiple points of view. A complex plot, well-drawn characters and plenty of double-crossing make this a thinking person's narco-thriller. Agent, Jimmy Vines. Author tour. (May)
language: English
title: The Power of the Dog
titlecomplete: The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)
characters: Nora Hayden, Sean Callan, Adán Barrera, Agent Art Keller,
genres: Noir, Mystery, Novels, Suspense, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 40030
series: Power of the Dog
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Barry Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Dilys Award, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 1. Platz International, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: このミステリーがすごい！
category: Best Translated Mystery Novel of the Year in Japan, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Japan Adventure Fiction Association Prize 日本冒険小説協会大賞特別賞
category: Best Translated Novel, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Falcon Award
publisher: William Heinemann