![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. With its present-tense verbs, high-octane cinematic scenes, and bite-sized chapters, the writing is as vivid as a lightning storm. At times, The Kings of Cool verges on a kind of steel-tipped poetry, providing flashes of insight from perfectly carved sentences. The Kings of Cool Don Winslow Don Winslow’s dynamite prequel to the explosive Savages manages to be both funny and scary with dialogue so sharp you could cut a line of coke with it. ![]() 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. 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. He writes in the simplest, clearest, most spare way of anybody I’ve read. ![]()
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