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A trio of twenty-somethings, O, Ben and Chon, who were the focus of an earlier novel, Savages, are cultivating weed in grow houses, second-generation dope dealers looking to expand their business from California.

Winslow takes deliberate care to make each character and story stand alone. Don Winslow: Broken review - a staggering crash course in the possibilities of crime A brilliantly ranging, complex collection of short crime novels from a master of … Simply enter your email address in the box below, Don Winslow, one of the finest crime writers today, Each of Winslow's stories is satisfyingly complex: not always redemptive, but clear in its trajectory.

A pretty strong statement to open the collection. Winslow wastes little time in hooking his audience as he introduces us in the title story to New Orleans Police dispatcher Eva McNabb on the most memorable night in her career. Winslow slows things down a bit in the next story, “Crime 101,” as Detective Lou Lubesnick investigates a string of jewel heists along the Pacific Coast Highway.

He intervenes to help a traumatised six-year-old girl, becoming desperately involved in the attempt to reunite the mute Luz with her mother, already deported to Salvador. It’s a high-level jewellery heist with no violence – and there have been 11 in four years. Longtime readers — Winslow has penned 21 international bestsellers — will be especially happy to see some of his recurring characters making return appearances here, like Ben, Chon, and O, in the story “Paradise.” The three friends in the cannabis business were first introduced in Savages and The Kings of Cool and later immortalized in the Savages TV series. “The San Diego Zoo” is a fantastic story, very funny and with an extremely endearing protagonist. ( Log Out /  The protagonist, a border agent, becomes interested and invested in the fate of a very young girl in the facility. It’s a hugely enjoyable crash course in the chameleon-like possibilities of crime; a whizz of a read.

Get a weekly digest of our critical highlights in your inbox each Thursday! But cop Lou Lubesnick, head of the robbery unit, won’t be fooled: he’s convinced that the robberies have a pattern and are devised by a single intelligence. Things come to a head in an explosive conclusion. “The Dawn Patrol” and “The Gentleman’s Hour” are titles that give something of the flavour. Acute in its observations, the collection asks to be savoured slowly: each of the six has a short word count, but a long reach. Chris Shea is the reluctant but decent, accident-prone policeman in charge, and Lou Lubesnick, our hero from previous novel, turns up too. ( Log Out /  “Crime 101” takes the point of view of the perpetrator, following the criminal’s first belief that laws are made to be broken, with rules that are made to be followed. I want you to avenge your brother. Like a marriage.”. They come up against the local criminal element, but form a close alliance and friendship with another transplant to the islands.

Putnam's Sons / Simon Schuster UK). William Morrow. But surfers at heart, the naïve trio comes up against The Company, controllers of Hawaii’s drug trade. Broken is one of the best books of the year. “I’m going to stay in a radio car for the rest of my career, unless they force me to quit first.”. The titles of the novels in the new collection are characteristic: succinct, atmospheric, in sequence they form a prose poem: “Broken”, “Crime 101” (dedicated to Steve McQueen), “The San Diego Zoo” (written in homage to Elmore Leonard), “Sunset” (after Raymond Chandler) “Paradise” and “The Last Ride”. Don Winslow: Broken review - a staggering crash course in the possibilities of crime |.

In his new novella collection, Broken , Don Winslow takes a breather from the intensely dark depictions of violence in his Cartel crime trilogy, but he still provides plenty of action to satisfy readers. The stories themselves: meaningful and memorable. One of the masters of both mystery and thriller, Don Winslow’s latest volume is a reading bonanza: a collection of six crime-focused short novels (‘novellas’ feels too fancy for a writer so unpretentious) that riffs off the genre with technical virtuosity, building to a staggering immersion in the possibilities of the form. A must-read collection of interlinked crime novellas. Amid intermittent hilarity and some excruciating puns, it is a heartbreaking, sad and terrible story, in which villains almost triumph, and the ones we really like just squeak through. “I’ve pissed off my lieutenant … I’ve pissed off Robbery — the exact people I least want to piss off … ” Chris muses.

Yet what Winslow does here, and in the stories that follow, is somehow make you believe in the characters and their world, although it could not be further from the direct experience of his readers.

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As the avenging cop becomes the monster he is hunting down, the story twists into something savage, terrible, horribly believable and unputdownable.

I really liked meeting these characters, and learning more about them as each subsequent story focused on a different one, with a different feel and slightly-different style (they’re all recognizably Winslow). Don Winslow: Broken review - a staggering crash course in the possibilities of crime . “Sunset” is for “Mr. On the Pacific Coast Highway that hugs the ocean south-north in California, a lone operator known as Davis (who thinks Steve McQueen was the coolest man on the planet) is working the jewellery shops up and down the axis of Highway 101. He is best known for his epic trilogy on the Mexican drugs war, twenty years in the making, that he concluded this year.

If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that the reviews … InBroken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters and fugitives, the lost souls driving without headlights through the dark night on the American criminal highway. In “Sunset”, we get a story about aging bail bondsmen and bounty hunters, coming to terms with their age, while searching for one of their own who’s finally crossed a line, and also trying to navigate the recent changes in California law with regards to their business. Three stories — “Crime 101”, “The San Diego Zoo”, and “Sunset” — are set in San Diego and Southern California, and are the most inter-connected of all of the stories.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Overall, this is a superb collection, and a fantastic read. It’s a powerful, wrenching story, with a tragic ending. Just read.

He’s a character, but don’t be fooled.

Its tense, typically for Winslow, is the historical present. He dresses as he fancies McQueen would, and drives cars McQueen might have chosen. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. While the bulk of the tales here include serious and cautionary themes of corruption, vengeance, loss, and redemption, time and again Winslow creates deeply believable characters by highlighting their desires and the setbacks to fulfilling those desires — goals in which readers can easily relate.

Each takes a different look at the crime, mystery and/or thriller genres.

Don Winslow’s Broken is published by William Morrow in North America and Harper Collins in the UK. A high-end thief works on his final score in the first, as a dogged detective finally catches a break on his hunt for the robber. Raymond Chandler” (in more ways than one).

The good guys often get hurt. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. It does not end well: as native goes head to head with newcomer, the light-hearted prose unfolds a ruthless and terrifying tale, predicated on heartlessness, various riffs on family alliances of all kinds, about how to surf the wave and survive – or not.

“Eva McNabb hears humanity’s brokenness for eight hours straight, five nights a week, more when she’s pulling doubles,” Winslow writes. But the story is also heavy on atmosphere, and there’s tragedy, too. It follows a drug squad, each member delineated and all of them out to take down a boat carrying methamphetamine (a first for the team). He manages a miracle, but at high cost. He lives in La Vergne. G. Robert Frazier is a former Middle Tennessee newspaper reporter and editor now working as a book reviewer and aspiring screenwriter. “Broken” is set in post-Katrina New Orleans. ( Log Out /  The information about Broken shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks.

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