This book is a reminder of why I should never give up reading fiction books as it is one that once you start, you can't put down. Chon and Ben, who are a former Navy Seal and a brilliant philanthropic guy, are best friends who are drug dealers in California. They have a free will girl who is be...
A prequel for Savages, this novel gives us the back story of O, Ben and Chon including time shifting chapters illustrating events in Laguna Beach in the late 60s and early 70s. Winslow employs an unconventional style that reminded me of Ken Bruen although in this case not as successfully done. No...
Crazy fun to read! This is a hyper fast story with witty dialogue and cultural references every other sentence. I especially loved the lines from The Godfather. If you want more insight into the drug world, you'll get both perspectives: those who are for drugs and those who are against them. It w...
Boone Daniels is an ex-cop turned PI who lives to surf, as do the rest of the Dawn Patrol who meet each morning on the beach just north of San Diego. In turn humorous and thrilling, the story unfolds as Boone reluctantly takes on a case to find a missing witness in an arson case only to turn up a...
This is an outstanding book. At times, the author lapses into an essay on surfing, or surf history, or the history of Pacific Coast Highway and the growth of Southern California. However, those essays serve only to make the book better. There's a good mystery here, but the flavor of the book i...
I looooved The Dawn Patrol but my biggest complaint was that it had an extreme tonal shift that left you a little woozy (insert clever surfing/wave metaphor here).The Gentleman's Hour is Winslow's second look into the Boone Daniels universe and everything is tighter: dialogue is snappier and funn...
Don Winslow is back! I know I am in the minority when I say I thought Savages was pure crap, but since I liked all of the other books I have read from this Author, I decided to read his latest, and I was greatly rewarded. If you liked Dawn Patrol, or the Winter Of Frankie Machine, you will like t...
Grossartiger zweiter Roman rund um dem surfenden Privatdetektiv und Ex-Cop Boone Daniels. Der Protagonist ist dieses Mal allerdings mit noch mehr Problemen konfrontiert als bei seinem ersten Fall. Mord, Verrat, Rechtsextremismus, Korruption, private Fehden, Drogen....und das alles an der südkalif...
The Death and Life of Bobby Z is the book that started Don Winslow on his “drugs in Laguna” series, which isn’t actually a series as much as an attitude and state of mind that led eventually to Savages and its prequel.Tim Kearney is a three-time loser who gets fished out of a certain-death trip b...
Everything about Don Winslow’s The Power of the Dog feels familiar. As I read it, pop culture artifacts as different as Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, and the techno-thrillers of Tom Clancy popped into my head. The dramatis personae is almost a list of archetypes: the ha...
Don Winslow è sicuramente uno dei più significativi autori di thriller di questi anni. Se paragonata al “Potere del Cane” e a “L’inverno di Frankie Machine”, “La lingua del fuoco” si può considerare un’opera minore, ma possiede una forza raramente riscontrabile nei thriller che ho letto negli ult...
Edgar and Shamus Award-nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal's assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque ...
I discovered Don Winslow last year with Savages, one of the best novels I read in 2014.I grabbed this audiobook for a road trip last week hoping for a story of similar depth and nuance. Unfortunately, A Long Walk Up the Water Slide was a big disappointment. It lacks the authentic atmosphere, in-t...
THE TRAIL TO BUDDHA's MIRROR - ExWinslow, Don - 2nd Neal Carey bookRobert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula. Not surprisingly, the Bank, his notoriously exclusive backer, wants to keep an eye on its investment. But so does the CIA. An...
The place the soldiers jokingly called “La Montana de Amor,” was a smooth plateau of flattened earth that seemed to have been sheered off of the very top of the mountain. A low rock wall with an impressive wooden gate, currently opened to admit their bizarre little parade defined the area before ...
But he questioned this when he stepped back into the house, because the scene in front of him resembled everything he’d ever heard about an acid flashback. The first weird and twisted hallucination that met his eyes was a distorted version of Candy Landis sitting on a chair in his kitchen. Her fo...
The convoy has driven all night up the narrow twisting road, little more than a goat path, in the hope of arriving here unseen.Looking through binoculars, Keller sees that the village is still asleep, so no one has raised an alarm.Luis Aguilar shivers behind him.The two men don’t like each other....
He knew where to go and how to get there. The members of the extraction team, composed of Hui, were making their way to the Temple of the Green Truth.“We’ll need some talent,” Haverford warned. “Things could get tough.”Benton answered, “The whole team is trained in a Muslim Chinese martial art — ...
D. would bury herself in her work, writing furiously for several days before emerging to present her newly-completed story to her male companion for his comments. One day, in the grip of the muse, D found herself writing about a naked girl who is made to pull a wheeled cart. Her companion read th...