It's a crazy story: A drug lord escaped from a maximum-security prison in Mexico via a tunnel, outfitted with a rail-mounted motorbike, that led from his shower to a house in a cornfield a mile away.
That was Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who disappeared Saturday and is being sought by Mexican authorities. It's the second time Guzman, considered Mexico's most powerful drug lord, has escaped from prison.
Guzman's first escape was fictionalized by novelist Don Winslow in his new book, "The Cartel." Winslow, a former private investigator and award-winning thriller writer, had long been writing about narco traffickers and the border drug war; a character like Guzman appeared in his acclaimed 2005 thriller, "The Power of the Dog.