Don Winslow

The Border: The final gripping thriller in the bestselling Cartel trilogy


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      This is entirely a work of fiction. Any references to real people, living or dead, real events, businesses, organizations and localities are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. All names, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      First published in the United States by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

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      Stephen King, excerpt from Introduction to The Shining (New York: Pocket Books, 2001). Copyright © 2001 by Stephen King. Reprinted by permission.

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      Ebook Edition © February 2019 © ISBN: 9780008227555

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       Dedication

      In memory of

      Abel García Hernández, Abelardo Vázquez Peniten, Adán Abraján de la Cruz, Alexander Mora Venancio, Antonio Santana Maestro, Benjamín Ascencio Bautista, Bernardo Flores Alcaraz, Carlos Iván Ramírez Villarreal, Carlos Lorenzo Hernández Muñoz, César Manuel González Hernández, Christian Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre, Christian Tomás Colón Garnica, Cutberto Ortiz Ramos, Doriam González Parral, Emiliano Alen Gaspar de la Cruz, Everardo Rodríguez Bello, Felipe Arnulfo Rosa, Giovanni Galindes Guerrero, Israel Caballero Sánchez, Israel Jacinto Lugardo, Jesús Jovany Rodríguez Tlatempa, Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz, Jonás Trujillo González, Jorge Álvarez Nava, Jorge Aníbal Cruz Mendoza, Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño, Jorge Luis González Parral, José Ángel Campos Cantor, José Ángel Navarrete González, José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa, José Luis Luna Torres, Julio César López Patolzín, Leonel Castro Abarca, Luis Ángel Abarca Carrillo, Luis Ángel Francisco Arzola, Magdaleno Rubén Lauro Villegas, Marcial Pablo Baranda, Marco Antonio Gómez Molina, Martín Getsemany Sánchez García, Mauricio Ortega Valerio, Miguel Ángel Hernández Martínez, Miguel Ángel Mendoza Zacarías, Saúl Bruno García, Daniel Solís Gallardo, Julio César Ramírez Nava, Julio César Mondragón Fontes and Aldo Gutiérrez Solano.

      And dedicated to

      Javier Valdez Cárdenas

      and all journalists everywhere.

       Epigraph

       And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash; so tell those who plaster it over with whitewash, that it will fall.

      —Ezekiel 13:10

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       3. Victimville

       4. The Bus

       Book Three: Los Retornados

       1. The Holidays

       2. Coyotes

       3. La Bestia

       4. This Upside-Down World

       5. Banking

       Book Four: Inauguration

       1. Foreign Lands