The Power of the Dog - Award-Winning Novel by Thomas Savage | Western Fiction, Family Drama | Perfect for Book Clubs & Literary Enthusiasts

Although the characters are fictional the story is the heartbreaking truth of our own moral corruption.We in America have zero conception of what our appetite for drugs (encouraged by our own bad actors) have inflicted upon Mexico & other countries. We have fueled an incentive system that rewards the most ambitious to be the most ruthless—and in countries with great socio-economic disparities and weak legal systems, you end up with chaos so bad that people start yearning for a gangster’s peace: a de facto partnership between the strongest criminals & the government. Which is what Mexico has come to accept to secure relative predictability to its incessant narco power struggles. The book, with the artificiality of a fictional plot where the central characters appear every where, covers that that depressing trajectory.