Winslow writes the kind of books that Tarantino might- if he had a heart. Don Winslow (born October 31, 1953) is an American retired author best known for his award-winning and internationally bestselling crime novels, including Savages, The Force and the Cartel Trilogy. Doug Johnstone, Independent on SundayĪn epic prequel to Don Winslow's Savages. His voice is the narrators voice, commanding all past and. At times, The Kings of Cool verges on a kind of steel-tipped poetry, providing flashes of insight from perfectly carved sentences. In his new novel, The Force, detective sergeant Denny Malone talks to himself a lot. And Winslow fulfils those ambitions fantastically well, with a stylistic swagger and bucketloads of empathy to go with a scintillating, perfectly executed crime-novel plot… Delivered in the sleekest, most sinewy prose you’re ever likely to read. Interview: Don Winslow, Author of The Kings of Cool, Prequel to Savages. Alastair Mabbot, HeraldĪ brilliant, hypnotic novel…A considerably more ambitious book than Savages, seeking to map out not only the history of Savages’ weird love triangle, but also to cast a panoramic eye over the whole history of the drug trade in California from the 1960s onwards. Interview: Author Don Winslow and The Kings of Cool. Packing more of an emotional heft than Savages, it’s written in the leanest prose possible, with a single-word paragraph being nothing unusual but managing to say more than you’d expect. He writes in the simplest, clearest, most spare way of anybody I’ve read.
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