"Days of the Dead" is the first part of Don Winslow's meticulously researched political thriller trilogy "The Cartel Saga" about the drug war between Mexico and the United States. Never before has anyone come so successfully into conflict with the Mexican drug lords as U.S. drug investigator 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 investigator himself. Keller then goes after the cartels with even more ruthlessness 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 encounters 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.".