The Border: A Novel

"The third and final piece of Don Winslow’s drug war trilogy is a massive doorstopper of a book that brings to a close the stories of Art Keller and Adán Barrera – the cop and the kingpin who’ve been at the center of this extended tale for 15 years. Operatic, visceral, full of clipped sentences and quick action, The Border is politics made into spectacle. There’s something absolutely Shakespearean about Winslow’s work – the sense of complicated, ungainly problems presented with full lights and fireworks, costumed in gold chains and polo shirts, writ hugely in the way that only fiction can be. So 300 years from now, when our children’s children’s children want to understand the defining conflict of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, there’s a fair chance that this is what they’ll read."