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The Power of the Dog

The Power of the Dog
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First published: January 1, 2005

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The seemingly disparate lives of a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, and a priest intertwine around a nexus of the drug trade involving the Latin American drug cartels, the American underworld, and the U.S. government, from the rise of the Mexican drug Federacion in the 1970s to the present day. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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Adam Milton
Adam MiltonCuratorA+

January 3, 2026

Personal Battles in a Global War

When I started the book I had made some assumptions about what this book was going to say, who the characters were, where it was going. The first of the main characters shown I thought was going to be a Jack Reacher/Jack Ryan/Alex Cross protagonist, an impossibly competent and perfectly crafted self...