


It has a thousand characters, many of whom are dredged up from previous installments The Power of the Dog and The Cartel, and some of whom count as spoilers just by the mention of their names.

Worse, the voice of someone faking the affectation (which Winslow is not).Īnd like all of Winslow's books, The Border is big. It's the voice of someone who's trying to make fun of bad tough-guy pulp - stringing together the least amount of words into a sentence, the least amount of sentences into a paragraph. The Border, like all of Winslow's books, is written in Winslow's voice, which is choppy, curt, atonal, ugly. I'm going to start with the second thing first. I have two things to say about The Border, the final book in Don Winslow's drug war trilogy. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Border Author Don Winslow
