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The Cartel by Don Winslow

June 11, 2022 by Jake Leave a Comment

Years ago, I read Robert Andrew Powell’s This Love Is Not For Cowards. Powell, a US journalist moved to Juarez, Mexico at the time when it was the most dangerous metropolitan area on earth. He did it to follow the local football (soccer) team, learn about its fan culture and what it meant to be so devout to a team while existing in a war zone. A scene from that book has stuck with me almost ten years since I read it. Powell reports on a shooting […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Arthur Keller, crime, don winslow, mexico, Sinaloa, the cartel

Jake's CBR14 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Arthur Keller, crime, don winslow, mexico, Sinaloa, the cartel ·
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Do literally anything else with your time

August 21, 2016 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

Full disclosure: I didn’t actually finish this book. However, I did read about 300 pages of this bloated novel, so I feel pretty comfortable writing a review. It was so tempting to finish The Cartel after reading so much of it but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Those are hours of my life I could be reading The Babysitter’s Club fanfiction or watching cat videos on youtube. I put this book on my TBR list after hearing a great interview Don Winslow […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: don winslow, Fiction, mystery, the cartel, thriller

yesknopemaybe's CBR8 Review No:54 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: don winslow, Fiction, mystery, the cartel, thriller ·
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