Not sure why you put main in quotes. I said the hero of the second book, not the main character. Perhaps I was too harsh, and comprehension skills are to blame for your incorrect opinion.

This is a ridiculous take and I honestly think you posted it for the paint by numbers comments it produced. Prime Reddit for sure. The characters you reference ARE defined by the sexual transgressions forced onto their life, just as the men are forced into various states of violence, as victim or perpetrators. He's painting a violent ugly world bc - news flash - drug lords aren't gentle.

So you find the depiction of a female prisoner forced into prostitution reprehensible, but you make no mention of the man slowly burned to death by the cartel, or the reporter tortured to death by a childhood friend on orders of the same cartel? What's wrong with you?

Not to mention the hero of one of the Cartel trilogy is a female reporter. Failed to mention that I noticed.

Winslow is great. Your opinion, alas, is not.