2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner
![The Cartel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581035448-6762-image-3.jpg)
The Cartel
Don Winslow
A sequel to “The Power of the Dog” finds a drug lord’s prison transfer to Mexico upsetting a precarious balance of peace and forcing a DEA agent to come out of retirement to stop the ensuing violence….
2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Shortlist
![Bull Mountain](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580868175-427-image-3.jpg)
Bull Mountain
Brian Panowich
![The Long and Faraway Gone](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581043845-7191-image-3.jpg)
The Long and Faraway Gone
Lou Berney
![The Sympathizer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580847083-58919-image-3.jpg)
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
![The Whites](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580940033-60142-image-3.jpg)