But surfers at heart, the naive trio comes up against The Company, controllers of Hawaii’s drug trade.
A trio of twenty-somethings – the focus of a previous Winslow novel, Savages – are cultivating weed in grow houses, second-generation dope dealers looking to expand their business from California. In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. But the story is also heavy on atmosphere, and there is tragedy, too.Ģ5 classic but lesser-known crime novels to read in lockdown, from King Dido to the Sam Dean series Every sentence is an aphorism and wisecracks are plentiful. Bail bondsman Duke Kasmajian is a ruthless drinker of Scotch, connoisseur of Pacific Jazz, and a man of mysterious means. “Sunset” is dedicated to Raymond Chandler. “San Diego Zoo” is similarly light, a story about a zoo escapee – a chimp armed with a revolver, in a laugh-out-loud homage to Elmore Leonard. What follows when Davis picks on a courier carrying millions between San Diego and Del Mar is curiously lighthearted. He dresses as he fancies Steve McQueen would, and drives cars McQueen might have chosen. On the Pacific Coast Highway in California, a lone operator known as Davis is working the jewellery shops up and down the axis of Highway 101. Don't read on a full stomach, Savages takes no prisoners.“Crime 101” is written from the point of view of the perpetrator. Winslow makes a case for more of the trade insanity of Second Amendment selling of weapons to the Mexican Cartels who sell drugs to the Americans and buy more weapons.
In between the flowing of red and profanity, celebrities and politicians are lampooned as capitalism at its oligopoly best. They plan to take the war to the cartel as late night second half buffs Letterman and Leno in order to rescue O.ĭon Winslow savages the American war on drugs (and immigration) with this wild bloody thriller. The partners reject the foreign demands, but ignore the cartel until the Baja banditos go too far when they snatch O. However, former SEAL Chon, as Ophelia describes, has a "baditude" who does not mind a fight though he would also prefer a peaceful solution. However, the Baja Cartel wants to expand into the Laguna Beach theater of operations and two punk Americans will not prevent them.īen agrees with the Mexicans' assessment as he wants no trouble. In affluent Laguna Beach, California, Ben and Chon manage a profitable marijuana business. The Iraq vet, a former member of the Navy Seals, is the ostensible reason for that note of hostility on the book’s first page.
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