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Savages winslow don
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savages winslow don

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. A former investigator, antiterrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island. The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border sold to FX in a major multimillion-dollar deal to air as a weekly television series beginning in 2020. Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone. And the precipitating story, the Helen of Troy story reminded me so much of a real life incident that had taken place in New England and the crime world when I was - when I was a kid, that it struck me, the parallel struck me and I thought, I wonder if I could do that, if I could make a fully modern crime novel that would stand on its own as a contemporary crime novel, but also echo those stories and themes from the classics.Don Winslow is the author of twenty-one acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Force and The Border, the #1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Where did this idea come from to combine crime and the classics?ĭon Winslow, Author, "City on Fire": Well, it's been 27 years ago, I was reading the Iliad, as one does. So Don, your new book, is this Iliad saga telling the story of these warring crime families in 1980s Providence, Rhode Island. It's a gritty gangster saga inspired by the mobsters of his Rhode Island hometown, and Winslow says by Homer's Iliad, we spoke this past week as he was traveling on his book tour about why this latest novel is his last, as Winslow shifts his focus from writing to activism.

savages winslow don

His latest is City On Fire, the first in a trilogy. Novelist Don Winslow has authored more than 20 acclaimed international bestsellers, including The Border, Savages, and The Cartel. And now to our weekend spotlight, this week I spoke to famed crime novelist and activist Don Winslow, about why his new series of books will be his last and what's in store for his next chapter.













Savages winslow don