If you see a price sticker on a book, please ignore it. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. Savages is an ingenious combination of adrenaline-fuelled suspense and true-crime reportage by a master thriller writer at the very top of his game.Īll of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. O's abduction sets off a dizzying array of ingenious negotiations and gripping plot twists that will captivate readers eager to learn the costs of freedom and the price of one amazing high. When they refuse to back down, the cartel escalates its threat, kidnapping Ophelia, the boys' playmate and confidante. But now they may have come up against something that they can't handle-the Mexican Baja Cartel wants in, sending them the message that a "no" is unacceptable. Don Winslow is the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including The Force, The Cartel, The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Gentlemen’s Hour, The Dawn Patrol, The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Power of the Dog, and The Border. In the past when their turf was challenged, Chon took care of eliminating the threat. 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.
The Kings of Cool also chronicles how Elena Sanchez changed from devoted mother and wife to a ruthless leader of a drug cartel, recruiting former cop Lado as her henchman.Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. Winslow also shows the personal history of Ophelia’s much-married mother and Ophelia’s obsessive search for her father. One of the jokes in Savages, Oliver Stone’s feverish, fully baked, half-great adaptation of Don Winslow’s ferocious and funny drug-war novel of the same name, is that the film’s title. Our minds, our blood.”įamily history plays an important part in The Kings of Cool from Chon’s fractious relationship with his father, John McAlister, a roofer turned drug kingpin, to Ben’s parents, Stan and Diane Leonard, former bookstore owners turned psychotherapists. “The past isn’t the past,” Winslow writes. The Kings of Cool also highlights the Association’s activities through the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The Kings of Cool smoothly moves from 2005, when Ben, Chon and O, as she prefers to be called, were just settling in, then back to 1967, their parents’ time, when several independent, nonviolent drug dealers were setting up a business called the Association.
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