Authors should check firearm references before publication with someone familiar with weapons and their functionality. Hearing these descriptions made me cringe as everything else about the narco trade and their antics is spot on. The M-60 machine gun fires 7.62mm rounds and is not a '50 caliber'. You can't release the safety on a revolver before firing it because there is NO safety. A 'service revolver' does not have a 'safety'. My only beef is the author needs to pay attention to some minor details concerning firearms. Ray Porter is an incredible narrator and brings the Power of the Dog to life. We still have an open border with Mexico. The dope goes north and the money goes south. The violence is real and believe me the 5 Freeway continues to be a narcotics super highway to this day. We never caught the big guys, we only reeled in the little fish. Did I make a difference? Did I put a dent in the trade. I spent 32 years chasing narco in Los Angeles. What made the experience of listening to The Power of the Dog the most enjoyable? Together the author and the actor provide us with a five star experience, and along the way they school us in the history and nature of the greed/power wars north and south of the border. Happily, as many reviewers have made clear, Porter is given a rich and varied set of characters to work with. I have spent a lifetime as an actor/director/theatre teacher and I have never heard it done better. Porter does it and makes it sound effortless.

Creating a range of Italians, Irish or Mexicans, each distinct, consistent and steeped in the life of the character is nearly impossible. Doing a single Italian or Mexican or Irish voice convincingly is difficult. In addition, his facility with dialect is extraordinary. He peoples this book with a full cast of very distinct characters, each with his/her own speech pattern and vocal timbre. In that rather small company, Ray Porter stands out as among the very best of the best. There are a lot of very good narrators and readers in the world of audible books, but there are far fewer really accomplished voice actors.

The power of the dog book don winslow