‘The Border' Chronicles the Drug War's Deepening Encroachment on U.S. Soil

It was the massacre of 19 people in a Mexican town about 80 miles south of San Diego in September 1998 that spurred Don Winslow’s interest in writing about Mexico’s drug cartels and the U.S. war on drugs.Back then, he didn’t know much about the rise of figures like Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo or the former Zetas leader Miguel Treviño Morales. But he wanted to know how such a phenomenon could grow to this level of violence.So over the course of 20 years of research and writing, Winslow has produced three books: The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and, released last month, the series’ final installment, The Border.  Continue reading...

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