The Cartel
The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars worth of cocaine every year, and The Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most ruthless gangster Miami has ever seen, Carter Diamond leaves behind a wife, twin sons, a daughter, and a secret. The secret is his illegitimate son, Carter Jones. When Young Carter learns of his father’s death, he comes to town and is introduced to the legacy of The Cartel. Miamor is a woman who uses her beauty to enhance her skill as a contract killer. She is the leader of The Murder Mamas. When her crew is hired to take down The Cartel, they get caught slipping, and Miamor loses her sister in the process. She is determined to get revenge from The Cartel. Unknowingly, she meets the son of Carter Diamond, and he immediately catches her heart. She is sleeping with the enemy, and when she finds out, she is torn between love and revenge. Young Carter and Miamor lead two different lifestyles. They are on opposing teams, and when their worlds collide, the truth will be unveiled in an unpredictable ending.
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First in The Cartel series. The Diamond family runs a Miami drug empire built by patriarch Carter Diamond. When his daughter Miamor's life crosses theirs, alliances and double-crosses threaten everything they have built.
Multiple novels share this title. The most commonly searched is The Cartel by Don Winslow (2015), the second in his Mexican drug-war trilogy after The Power of the Dog and before The Border. Ashley & JaQuavis wrote a different novel by the same title.
Don Winslow's drug-cartel trilogy has three books: The Power of the Dog (2005), The Cartel (2015), and The Border (2019). The trilogy is complete and is widely cited as among the great American crime novels.
The Cartel is 278 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Cartel takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
The Cartel is a standalone novel by Ashley & JaQuavis, not part of a series.
The Cartel is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
