"Days of the Dead" is the first part of Don Winslow's meticulously researched political thriller trilogy "The Cartel Saga," which explores the drug war between Mexico and the United States. Never before has anyone successfully challenged the Mexican drug lords like U.S. drug agent Art Keller—too successfully, as it turns out: Keller's closest associate is brutally tortured to death by the gangsters, and a manhunt is officially launched against the drug agent himself. In response, Keller takes an even more ruthless stance against the cartels and realizes almost too late that he has made new enemies, and not in Mexico. Faced with the choice of serving his government or following his conscience, Art Keller makes a lonely decision—and finds unexpected allies along the way. What has gone down in history as the "Iran-Contra Affair" has been transformed by bestselling author Don Winslow into a hard-hitting, bloody political thriller that has stormed bestseller lists worldwide. Don Winslow's Cartel Saga includes the political thrillers "Days of the Dead," "The Cartel," and "Years of the Hunter.".