![]() ![]() ![]() Winslow writes the kind of books that Tarantino might- if he had a heart. 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. 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. 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. Don Winslow is the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one novels, including City on Fire, The Force, The Cartel, The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Gentlemen’s Hour, The Dawn Patrol, The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Power of the Dog, and The Border. ![]()
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