There's an author named Don Winslow who's had a few novels adopted into films over the last decade. He does airport genre fiction crime thrillers, which I'm a sucker for. He wrote a trilogy about the evolution of Mexican drug cartels over the last several decades, which is a topic I'm also a sucker for.
He's not an amazing writer or close to it. But the early works in this trilogy did stand out in their research and verisimilitude. Many key plot events were things that happened in real life and interpolated onto fictionalized characters. You get perspective characters from the DEA, the cartels, and people who get swept up in the drama. Very solid formula.
The problem hits in book #3, The Border, which Winslow wrote during Trump's first presidency. It's pure TDS fanfiction front to back. The basic theme is that our now-older characters have to deal with Trump, who's of course the worst and most evil and corrupt politician of all time.
Basically, he turned a crime series that was cool because it was steeped in real cartel history into just another metaphor for Trump being bad in the current year. He replaced actual research with regurgitating mainstream news opinion articles during a time of peak political hysteria.
I didn't bother to finish the book, although I've thought about going back and mining it for funny seethe passages. Maybe one day.
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