The new development reunites them with FX boss John Landgraf, who was a producer on UC: Undercover, created by the duo for US TV in 2001. And, according to Deadline, while Winslow and Salerno won't directly run the series themselves, they'll be closely involved going forward. Writer/director Shane Salerno, who works with Winslow as part of entertainment company The Story Factory, is on board to write the pilot with a showrunner still to be named. Much like the actual drug war, the books are often shocking in brutality and raw in humanity, portraying Mexican cartel power struggles, narcos and cops on both sides of the border, traffickers and drug mules, lawyers, journalists, junkies, teen hit men, asylum-seeking children and political corruption from Mexico poppy fields to the White House. The through line is a blood feud between the DEA agent and Mexican drug kingpin Adan Berrera. Kicking off with 2005's The Power Of The Dog, continued with 2015's The Cartel and this year's The Border, the trilogy spans a 45 year period and follows a DEA agent named Art Keller through America’s long running war on drugs. It's no surprise that studios have already come calling, and while Ridley Scott was attempting to turn the story into a film, he'll now executive produce a series based on the trilogy for US network FX, home of shows such as Sons Of Anarchy and The Shield. The 'Cartel' trilogy crafted by writer Don Winslow has become one of the most respected and timely chronicles of the war on drugs and border issues in the US.

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