La griffe du chien

French language

ISBN:
978-2-7578-0963-1
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The Power of the Dog is a 2005 crime/thriller novel by American writer Don Winslow, based on the DEA's involvement with the War on Drugs. The book was published after six years of writing and research by the author.

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Il potere del Cane (usano tutti 'sto titolo!)

3 stars

Primo libro della trilogia sull'agente Art Keller. Attraverso le vincende "fittizie" di un agente della DEA, una prostituta d'alto borgo e un criminale da newyork irlandese si ripercorre la fase di nascita, ascesa e tracollo della cosiddetta "Federacion", forse la più potente organizzazione di narcotraffico del Messico. Intrattenente e si fa leggere con moltissimo piacere (ma, parere personale, non grido al capolavoro)

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5 stars

This tangled set of interlocking stories examines the connections among money, drugs, and political power that makes the War on Drugs a much larger theatre of war than it might appear. We follow several characters from the 1970s into the 90s: a DEA agent who gets a friend killed and in a fit of remorse goes after the drug lords responsible, setting off unintended consequences; an Irish hitman from Hell's Kitchen who gets involved in an alliance with the Italian Mafia and, through them,covert operations run for the US government in Central America; a Sinaloan drug lord who has something of a conscience, but who is unable to do anything but sow destruction; a young, top-dollar call girl who crosses all of their paths sooner or later; and the one truly good person in the book - an activist bishop who doesn't quit smoking because he knows he'll be assassinated …

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