![]() It felt good.īut the story wasn’t finished, and it wasn’t finished with him. “Research-wise, I'd spend sometimes weeks at a time doing nothing but looking at atrocity videos and autopsy photos,” he says over coffee in the lobby of his Manhattan hotel. He’s quick to note that this is nothing compared to living through those episodes, but it weighed on him nonetheless. His north star is verisimilitude, and on The Cartel that meant spending hours digging into the carnage that spirals out of America’s drug war, soon to enter its sixth decade. ![]() ![]() The book was markedly more intense than its predecessor-one notable scene features a child soldier playing with a soccer ball onto which he’s sewn the face of one of his tormentors-but it was also a gigantic hit.įor Winslow, at least, such a scene felt unavoidable. As violence in Mexico reached surreal new heights, he dove back in, this time producing The Cartel. ![]() The decorated crime writer had been through this once before, in 2005: after he published The Power of the Dog, a blistering epic about America’s long entanglements with Mexican drug cartels, he thought his telling of the story was finished, but of course, that was just the beginning. It was happening again, Don Winslow explains. ![]()
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