The Power of the Dog

By: Don Winslow

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 20 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge.

Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell's Kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hit man. All of them are trapped in the world of the Mexican drug Federación.

From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

©2005 Don Winslow (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"A pit bull of a book. Once unleashed, this thriller...charges and attacks without mercy, shredding anyone in its path....A well-tuned plot, driving rhythm, intelligence and a touch of politics." ( Washington Post)

A very good Listen

Long winding tale. reminds me of once upon a time in the West. Pay attention, the character developments get long and can get confusing. Story line and narration are great. Graphic sex and violence but not gratuitous. Get it you will enjoy it.

tour de force

If you enjoyed the Netflix series Narcos then this is just your cup of tea. Ray Porter does an excellent job as always.

excellent narration

Ray Porter makes the characters come to life, accents and attitudes. A great listen.

Great Listen

I greatly enjoyed this book. Some people did not like the violence and sex trade in the book, but it truly is the reality of the drug world. Narration was excellent and would highly recommend this book

History lesson on drug trade

An involved fictional story attached to the real war on drugs. Intense and violent with a great reader. It felt real

Good but graphic

Very good story and performance but leaves little to the imagination in the violence and violence categories. Plot twists and love how the stories intertwine and come together.

Winslow is the Tolstoy of the Drug Trade

This book has everything: sex, violence, humor, pathos, irony and such realistic detail one wonders who Mr. Winslow consorts with in his spare time. Aside from a few minor holes in an extraordinarily complex and satisfying plot that includes the Cartels, Colombian drug gangs, the FARC, the DEA, FBI, CIA, and the NY Mafia along with a very colorful Irish-American fellow traveller, hookers, priests, and the President of Mexico....well, they all have a role and it all hangs together. The narration is also first-rate. Mr. Porter brings every character alive and his accents and speech patterns are nearly pitch perfect. This is much more than genre fiction: it is an autopsy on the underbelly of U.S. /Latin American relations over the last 50 years and Mr. Winslow is spot-on on laying blame and shining a light on the hypocrisy, cruelty, and downright criminal nature of much of what went on and probably continue to this day.

Holy mama

That was freaking awesome! Great narration, wild story, and totally captivating. The only downside? The book ended.

amazing, all of it!

read Cartel first and loved it, wish I would Have read this first but none the less both are amazing. Narration,story all of it was amazing!

It was pretty good.

I had the misfortune of going into this book with really high expectations. It was good but not amazing. Still deciding whether I will continue the trilogy.