Winslow’s opinion, America’s longest war: the war on drugs. Together, the two span nearly 1,200 pages and 40 years and present a multifaceted view of what is, in Mr. But the ideal approach, if you can make the leap and commitment, is to read the two books in sequence as a Part 1 and a Part 2. “The Cartel” is a big, sprawling, ultimately stunning crime tableau that can be read as a stand-alone. Winslow’s drug war version of “The Godfather,” with all the grand ambition that implies. It was the first step into what would become Mr.
“The baby is dead in his mother’s arms,” that book began, and went on to describe the horrific image of a bullet-riddled Madonna and child in Mexico. That’s reminiscent of his 2005 novel, “The Power of the Dog,” which also used a baby on its opening page.
On the opening page of “The Cartel,” Don Winslow mixes a baby’s cry with the sound of a helicopter’s blades in a predawn raid.
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