Tumble posted:

I am reading "The Cartel", sequel to "The Power of the Dog" and the second book in Don Winslow's Cartel trilogy. It's a sprawling series that tells the story of the of a cartel kingpin and the agent who is charge of taking him down. It's fiction but a ton of the people and events are based in reality, on things that really happened and the people who did them.

It's a very entertaining read, my favorite thing to do is after you read about some particularly gruesome and outlandish-seeming event, to then go see if it's made up or if it was based in reality. For instance there really was a cartel hitman who seduced an enemy bosses wife and had her withdraw millions of dollars, then chopped her head off and mailed it to the boss which drove him nearly insane, and then the hitman threw their kids off a bridge.

Good times.