Don Winslow won the 2012 Raymond Chandler Award.

The honor, awarded at the Courmayeur Noir Festival, has been won in the past by the likes of John le Carré, John Grisham, and Michael Connelly.

The Cartel won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 2015 in the UK
2015 RBA International Prize for Crime Writing (Spain), world’s richest crime fiction award €125,000
The Cartel has been elected Best Crime Novel for the year 2016 by the jury of the French daily Le Parisien, Best-selling French daily newspaper. This is the third best crime novel of the year in France alone where it was published in 2016. In the UK it was a clean sweep of every major newspaper and magazine.
Winner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery / Thriller
One of the Best Books of the Year : A New York Times Critics’ Pick, The Seattle Times, The Denver Post, The Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, Amazon, National Post (Toronto), The Guardian, New Statesman, The Telegraph, The Sunday Times (London), The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday.