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. At times, The Kings of Cool verges on a kind of steel-tipped poetry, providing flashes of insight from perfectly carved sentences. 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. The Kings of Cool by Don Winslow - From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Be. 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.
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