Spanning the years from the rise of the Mexican drug Federación in the 1970s to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s to the vicious drug wars of the 1990s, the action ranges from Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen and the halls of Washington to the streets of Tijuana and the deserts of the American Southwest.

The players: a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, a priest. Caught up in the war on drugs, willingly or not, each is trying to escape the sins of the past while negotiating the treacherous currents of the present. Their seemingly disparate lives—taking shape on one side of the law or the other, or straddling both—slowly converge as they struggle to overcome, in any way possible, the “power of the dog.”

唐‧溫斯洛 Don Winslow

《紐約時報》暢銷書作者、雷蒙．錢德勒獎得主，著作甚豐，作品包括《Cool》、由導演奧立佛．史東改編為電影的《野蠻告白》、《The winter of Frankie Machine》，以及獲得高度好評的《犬之力》等書。

溫斯洛出生於羅德島小鎮，身為水手與圖書館員之子，自小就浸淫在書香與口述故事的世界裡。在大學取得非洲研究學位之後，他曾經作過電影院經理與私家偵探，又返回學校取得軍事史碩士，隨後的行跡遍佈亞非與歐美，在這段期間也出了首部小說《A cool Breeze on the Underground》，初試啼聲即獲愛倫坡獎提名的殊榮。

作品《生死交鋒》無論是書籍與電影都大有斬獲，也讓他終於得以成為全職作家，並且吸引了麥可．曼恩、馬丁．史柯西斯、勞勃．狄尼洛、李奧納多．狄卡皮歐等人的目光，希望能將他的作品搬上螢幕。

溫斯洛已婚、育有一子，現定居在南加州。