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Don Winslow (born October 31, 1953) is an American author best known for his crime novels including Savages, The Force and the Cartel Trilogy. Early life Winslow was born on October 31, 1953, in New York City. He grew up in Perryville, a beach town near the village of Matunuck, Rhode Island. He credits his parents for preparing him to become a writer: his mother was a librarian and his father was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Navy who told stories and invited Navy friends around who told more. They inspired Winslow to become a storyteller himself. He majored in African history at the University of Nebraska. While in college, he traveled to southern Africa, sparking a lifelong involvement with that continent. Winslow's travels took him to California, Idaho and Montana before he moved to New York City to become a writer, making his living as a movie theater manager and later a private investigator in Times Square – ‘before Mickey Mouse took it over’. He left to get a master's degree in military history and intended to go into the Foreign Service but instead joined a friend's photographic safari firm in Kenya. He led trips there as well as hiking expeditions in southwestern China, and later directed Shakespeare productions during summers in Oxford, England. Career While traveling between Asia, Africa, Europe and America, Winslow wrote his first novel, A Cool Breeze on the Underground, which was nominated for an Edgar Award and a Shamus Award for Best First Novel. With a wife and young son, Winslow went back to investigative work, mostly in California, where he and his family lived in hotels for almost three years as he worked cases and became a trial consultant. Winslow's second book, The Trail to Buddha’s Mirror, continued the Neal Carey saga. He followed that up with three more Neal Carey novels, Way Down on the High Lonely, for which he was a Dilys Award finalist, A Long Walk Up the Water Slide, and While Drowning in the Desert. For his next novel, Winslow broke from the Neal Carey character to write the standalone Isle of Joy, about an ex-CIA agent who is pulled back into the world of espionage, this time as the target of his former agency and the FBI. A film and publishing deal for his novel The Death and Life of Bobby Z, also a Barry Award finalist, for Best Novel, allowed Winslow to become a full-time writer and settle in his beloved California, the setting for many of his books.Branching into television, Winslow, with his friend and agent Shane Salerno, co-created the NBC television series UC/Undercover. The series ran one season and aired 13 episodes.Winslow then published the Shamus Award finalist California Fire and Life, and Looking for a Hero.In 2005, Winslow published what would become the first book in his epic “Cartel Trilogy,” The Power of the Dog, about obsessive DEA Agent Art Keller's quest to take down an El Chapo-esque Sinaloan cartel. The book earned rave reviews around the world and was a finalist for the Barry, Macavity, Hammett, and Dilys awards.Winslow then wrote The Winter of Frankie Machine, which garnered interest all over Hollywood and was eventually bought by Paramount Pictures for Robert De Niro to star in and Martin Scorsese to direct. During the development phase, screenwriter Eric Roth gave De Niro a book to read as research for the role. De Niro became so enthralled with that book – I Heard You Paint Houses – that he and Scorsese ended up adapting it into The Irishman. Winslow took it all in stride, even penning a humorous article on Deadline Hollywood jokingly titled “I Blame Eric Roth.”Winslow followed Frankie Machine with the first of his two Boone Daniels books, Dawn Patrol. Winslow was yet again a finalist for the Barry and Dilys Awards.In 2010, Winslow published Savages, which was voted a top-10 book of the year by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Chicago Sun Times, and author Stephen King, and was a Barry, Dilys, and Steel Dagger Award finalist. The rights were quickly scooped up by award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone. Winslow and Shane Salerno adapted the screenplay, and the film went on to star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Benicio del Toro, Salma Hayek, and John Travolta. After Savages, Winslow returned to the world of ultra-California cool cop-turned-PI Boone Daniels in The Gentlemen’s Hour. The book was a 2010 finalist for the Gold Dagger Award.In 2011, Winslow wrote another standalone, Satori, a prequel to Trevanian’s 1979 novel Shibumi. Winslow again earned rave reviews from critics and colleagues alike. Satori was purchased by Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way for DiCaprio to produce and star.The following year, Winslow returned to the world of Savages, writing the prequel The Kings of Cool. Yet again, his book was a Gold Dagger finalist for Best Crime Novel of the Year.2012 also saw Winslow given the prestigious Raymond Chandler Award, Italy's top lifetime achievement honor for masters of the thriller and noir literary genre. Past recipients have included Stephen King, John Le Carré, John Grisham, and Elmore Leonard. In 2015, Winslow published the second book in his Cartel Trilogy, The Cartel. The book was an international success, earning starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, landing on Best Books of the Year lists for over sixty publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Mail, and many others. Fellow novelists Stephen King, Michael Connelly, James Ellroy, and Harlan Coben also raved about The Cartel, naming it one of Winslow's best. The book went on to win the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, the RBA International Prize for Crime Writing, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.For his follow up the smash hit The Cartel, Winslow wrote another standalone, The Force, tackling corruption in the deepest recesses of the NYPD. The Force was another smashing success and named one of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, The Daily Mail, Booklist, and LitHub. In a seven-figure deal, Fox purchased the film rights for James Mangold to direct Matt Damon in a script adapted by award-winning screenwriter Scott Frank. In 2019, Winslow published the third and final installment of his epic Cartel Trilogy, The Border. Critics raved about the conclusion to the sprawling saga and it was named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Irish Times, Booklist, and many others. The film rights to the trilogy had originally been purchased by 20th Century Fox but in 2019, due to the sprawling nature of the story and world therein, FX Networks acquired the rights from their sister studio to turn the novels into a TV series. Filming on the pilot i.... Discover the Don Winslow popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Don Winslow books.
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A Man of Lies
Ben CraneWhen his lover is killed by their mob boss, a hardened criminal insider decides to pursue one last elaborate heist in an effort to rid himself of his underground lifestyle for...
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Das Jahr der Rache
Jonathan Freedland & Dietmar SchmidtMadison Webb, StarJournalistin der L. A. Times, ist fassungslos, als ihre jüngere Schwester an einer Überdosis Heroin stirbt und die Polizei sich weigert, Ermittlungen aufzunehmen....
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Stark
Ben EltonStark is a secret consortium with more money than God, and the social conscience of a dog on a croquet lawn. What's more, it knows the Earth is dying.Deep in Western Australia wher...
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The Power of the Dog
Don WinslowFrom the New York Times bestselling author, here is the first novel in the explosive Power of the Dog seriesan actionfilled look at the drug trade that takes you deep ins...
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The Dawn Patrol
Don WinslowFrom the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). As cool as its California surfer heroes, Don Winslow delivers a high velocity, darkly comic, and totally righteou...
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Brazilian Psycho
Joe Thomas'BRAZILIAN PSYCHO is a riveting and explosive masterpiece of political crime fiction that deserves to share the shelf with AMERICAN TABLOID, THE POWER OF THE DOG and A BRIEF HIST...
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El viaje
Miguel Siso-FernándezAndrés y Rossana están casados y nunca pudieron tener un hijo. Cuando se deciden a adoptarlo, la burocracia los burla. Entonces reciben una oferta...
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Frank V. MartinekExcerpt: On the white sand of a jungle bordered cove, two men and a girl stood gazing seaward, their eyes shielded against the rising sun’s first beams. To judge by their torn, mud...
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Gringa
Joe Thomas'As vibrant, colourful and complex as South America's largest city'São Paulo, 2013: a city at an extraordinary moment in its history. Mario Leme, a detective in the civil polic...
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Razor Girl
Carl HiaasenThe new fulltilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the bestselling author of Skinny Dip and Bad MonkeyWhen Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the roa...
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Beyond Year Zero
Lawrence HeldA gritty, pacey crime thriller set in the dark heart of Cambodia.Cambodia – seething hotbed of desperation and vice. The Khmer Rouge fighters are long dead but their murderou...
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The Winter of Frankie Machine
Don WinslowFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.Frankie Machianno, a hardworking entrepreneur, passionate lover, parttime surf bum, and fulltime dad, is a pillar of his waterfront commun...
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Drowning
T. J. NewmanNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES “Reads like Apollo 13 underwater.” Don Winslow “Masterful.” Patricia Cornwell “A stunn...
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City in Ruins
Don WinslowFollowing City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author...
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The Cocaine Diaries
Jeff Farrell & Paul Keany‘It won’t happen to me. That’s what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did – I got caught.’Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany w...
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Der Wanderer
Luca D'AndreaDie Leiche einer jungen Frau an einem unzugänglichen Bergsee. Ein Wanderer, dem keiner entkommt.Ein einsames Tal in Südtirol: Starr vor Entsetzen blickt Sibylle auf das Foto mit de...
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The Cartel
Don WinslowThe New York Times bestselling second novel in the explosive Power of the Dog seriesan actionfilled look at the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruptio...
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The Death and Life of Bobby Z
Don WinslowFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.When Tim Kearney, a smalltime criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he ...
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Frank V. MartinekThis book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and f...
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Double Barrel Bluff
Lou BerneyEdgar Awardnominated and USA Todaybestselling crime writer Lou Berney returns to his critically acclaimed thriller series starring former mob wheelman Shake Bouchon, who finds hims...
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City in Ruins
Don Winslow & Conny LöschDas fulminante Finale der ThrillerTrilogie und das letzte Buch des AusnahmeAutors Don WinslowDanny Ryan ist reich. Reicher, als er es sich je erträumt hätte. Früher war er ein Hafe...
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The Summer of Katya
TrevanianPart love story and part psychological thriller from bestselling author Trevanian, "a tour de force... A story that explores meticulously some of the darker corners of the human so...
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Macbeth
Jo NesbøJo Nesbøs packender Thriller über die Gier nach Macht Er kennt seine Feinde nur allzu gut. Inspector Macbeth ist der taffste Cop in einer maroden Industriestadt im Norden. Einen De...
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The Enemy Within
Tim AyliffeSET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Like Michael Connelly’s Bosch, John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth – and expose a deadly enemy...
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River of Teeth
Sarah GaileyA Finalist for the 2017 Nebula Award for Best NovellaSarah Gailey's wildfire debut River of Teeth is a rollicking alternate history adventure that Charlie Jane Anders calls "prepos...
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Die Gewalt der Dunkelheit
Michael KorytaMark Novak ist ein effektiver Ermittler. Hart, schnell, unbeugsam. Er arbeitet für die Organisation Innocence Incorporated, die unschuldig zum Tode Verurteilte vertritt. Doch seit ...
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The Best of Don Winslow of the Navy
Craig YoeA collection of the best stories from the classic run of Don Winslow of the Navy, one of the most popular comic books running during and after World War II. Edited by Craig Yoe, th...
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The Kings of Cool
Don WinslowFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everythin...
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Falling
T. J. Newman#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Terrifying…buckle up for a chilling summer read.” People (Best Books of the Week) “The perfect thriller! A mustread.” Gillian Fly...
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Total Fallout
Alex ShawA fastpaced and explosive action thriller, perfect for fans of James Deegan.Jack Tate thought the war was over…‘Alex Shaw is one of the best thriller writers around!’ Stephen Leath...
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November Road
Lou Berney" Un thriller essouflant et passablement usant pour les nerfs " Philippe Blanchet, Le Figaro Magazine" Un roadtrip époustouflant " L'obs" Un somptueux roman noir ...
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The Dan Brown Companion
Simon CoxWith its indepth look at some of the themes and reallife stories behind the fiction, The Dan Brown Companion gives a unique insight into the world of one of the most successful bes...
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Frank V. MartinekExcerpt: "On the white sand of a jungle bordered cove, two men and a girl stood gazing seaward, their eyes shielded against the rising sun’s first beams. To judge by their torn, mu...
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California Fire and Life
Don WinslowFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.When Jack Wade is called in to examine a suspicious arson claim, he follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California...
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City of Dreams
Don Winslow & Conny LöschDie Odyssee geht weiter: Band 2 der furiosen Trilogie von SPIEGELBestsellerautor Don WinslowNach dem tragischen Tod seiner Frau hat sich Danny Ryan mit seinem Sohn in Kalifornien n...
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Das siebte Grab
Igor De AmicisSieben leere Gräber. Sieben Namen. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.Sieben leere Gräber auf einem Friedhof in Neapel, daneben sieben Grabsteine mit den Namen bekannter Handlanger des or...
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Verraten
Florian SchwieckerLuk Krieger ist Agent einer geheimen Spezialeinheit zur Terrorbekämpfung. Als im Zentrum von Berlin eine Bombe explodiert und ihn beinahe in den Tod reißt, nimmt er gemeinsam mit d...
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The Fragile Edge
Suzanne ChazinA sniper attack propels Latino cop Jimmy Vega on a twisting hunt for a predator who stalks the unforgiving landscape of immigrant America. Probing beyond the hardships of the journ...
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Missing. New York
Don WinslowDer SpiegelBestseller als TaschenbuchDie fünfjährige Hailey spielt im Garten, als das Telefon klingelt und ihre Mutter kurz ins Haus geht. Eine Minute später kommt sie zurück. Und ...
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Don Winslow of the Navy
Frank V. MartinekWith centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are w...
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Past Life
Dominic NolanHOW DO YOU SOLVE A CRIME YOU CAN'T REMEMBER?'BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' DAILY MAIL'ONE HELL OF A DEBUT' HEAT'A GREAT STORY TOLD WITH REAL POISE' SIMON KERNICK, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'GR...
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State of Fear
Tim AyliffeSET TO BE ADAPTED FOR THE SCREEN. Like Michael Connelly’s Bosch, John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth – and bring down the world’s most wan...