On the other side is Adan Barrera, head of El Federacion, the world’s most powerful drug cartel and the man who brutally murdered Keller’s partner. The good guy is Art Keller, a Vietnam vet-turned DEA agent assigned in Mexico at the start of Nixon’s war on drugs. Now, he and his Savages co-writer and exec producer Shane Salerno have grand plans to set both books up and tell a two-film epic story of the futility of the drug war that spans 45 years and focuses on two mortal enemies. Winslow has had some of his novels adapted into movies - the Oliver Stone-directed Savages the most recent - but he has always declined big-money option offers on The Power Of The Dog. The sequel novel is the first one edited by Sonny Mehta since he won back Winslow from S&S it was Mehta who edited The Power Of The Dog and The Winter Of Frankie Machine. Knopf has firmed plans for a June 23 publication date for The Cartel, the title author Don Winslow has chosen for the sequel novel to his seminal 2005 drug war epic The Power Of The Dog.
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