Don winslow kings of cool5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() 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. Winslow’s 13th novel featured an action-packed plot loaded with fringe. At times, The Kings of Cool verges on a kind of steel-tipped poetry, providing flashes of insight from perfectly carved sentences. Don Winslow’s brash 2010 novel Savages finally moved this talented author from a cult-like status to the mainstream. 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. His voice is the narrators voice, commanding all past and. ![]() 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. In his new novel, The Force, detective sergeant Denny Malone talks to himself a lot. 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. With the adaptation of Don Winslows 2010 novel Savages hitting the big screen next month, this is a perfect time to publish The Kings of Cool a brilliant, hypnotic novel that takes. ![]() He writes in the simplest, clearest, most spare way of anybody I’ve read. ![]()
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