El Libro en Blanco recommended: "The Border", by Don Winslow.

Today we open a new book recommendations section for english readers, and we start with a fantastic thriller: "The Border".

"The Border", by Don Winslow.

For more than forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of Americas´s longest conflict: the war on drugs. His obsession with defeating the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel -Adán Barrera- has cost him the people he loved, even taken a piece of his soul.

Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created thirty more, who are wreaking chaos in his beloved Mexico. And not just there.

Fighting to end the heroin epidemic scourging America, Keller findes himself surrounded by an incoming administration that´s in bed with the very drug traffickers that Keller is trying to bring down.

From the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington, DC, Winslow follows a new generation of narcos, cops, addicts, politicians, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country.

A shttering tale of vengeance, corruption and justice, "The Border" is an unflinching portrait of modern America, a story of -an for- our time.

Bestselling author Don Winslow has written twenty-one novels, including "The Border", "The Force", "The Kings of Cool", "Savages", "The Winter of Frankie Machine" and the highly acclaimed epics "The Power of the Dog" and "The Cartel".

The son of a sailor and a librarian, Winslow grew up with a love of books and storytelling in a small coastal Rhode Island town.

His novels have attracted the attention of filmmakers and actors such as Oliver Stone, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Robert DeNiro and Leonardo DiCaprio.  Twentieth Century Fox has optioned his next novel about a NYPD cop as well as "The Cartel" and "The Power of the Dog".  Earlier books "Savages" and "The Death and Life of Bobby Z" were made into films, too.

He lives in California with his wife of thirty-one years.

The book:

Title: The Border

Author: Don Winslow.

Publishing: Harper Collins.

Date and place: London, 2019.

Literary genre: Thriller.

Pages: 722

ISBN: 978-0-00-822754-8

PVP: 15,38€