5/26/2023 0 Comments Power of the dog winslowThe anger at politics and societies and people ripples off the page in a stinging haze. Winslow writes with hammers, with cold and directed anger, lean and propulsive. It’s a story of The War On Drugs, and has the big decades-long sweep of the James Ellroy histories. He is incredibly good at threat, and anyone looking for a peaceful popcorn read will have to go elsewhere. Winslow is one of those brutal writers, sentences all sinew and hard muscle, and, in Nabakov’s phrase, throws so many rocks at his characters that you genuinely don’t know which, if any, will survive to the end. I had a few other books on the go, but one night I decided to just look at the first few pages. When Don Winslow released THE CARTEL, I thought I’d pick up its spiritual ancestor, THE POWER OF THE DOG, and read that first.
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