Title: Let Down
Product review: Don Winslow seems to write in two completely different voices, voices so different that it is hard to believe these books are by the same person. If you liked "California Fire and Life," you will be very disappointed in "Power of the Dog." If you liked "The Death and Life of Bobby Z," then you may enjoy "The Dog."Unfortunately, the voice I liked was the original, snappy one that gave "California Fire and Life" one of the sparkiest openings I've ever read. "Bobby Z" seemed standard and disappointing-albeit busy and bloody-and I didn't finish it. "Power of the Dog" covers twenty-five years of battling Mexican drug cartels, including the death-by-torture of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in the 1980s. Ambitious, but ultimately pretty standard. If you want a really, really scary look at the Mexican cartels, read Arturo Perez-Reverte's "Queen of the South."
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