![]() ![]() Turns out, he’s a pretty nice guy, all the cutting sarcasm in his novels reserved for true follies like America’s war on drugs. So, as he promoted Kings of Cool and waited to see how America embraced his beloved designer potheads/ ménage à trois-lings O, Chon, and Ben as brought to life by Blake Lively, Taylor Kitsch, and Aaron Johnson, I jumped at the chance to snag phone time. It’d be easy to schaden-hate him, if his novels weren’t so damn fun - full of crackling wit and head-turning action, all with a sly eye for the social ills of the drug trade he knows so well. ![]() And, oh yeah, he’s writing a script with Chuck Hogan (i.e., the Prince of Thieves author who was indirectly responsible for giving us the Jeremy Renner/Ben Affleck Southie showdown in Affleck’s adaptation The Town). Not only is his critically beloved New York Times best seller Savages getting the full Hollywood treatment as a film by Oliver Stone this weekend - fortunately, gonzo U-Turn/Natural Born Killers Stone, not What’s-This-Love-Story-in- Wall Street 2 Stone - but Winslow’s latest, the Savages prequel Kings of Cool, is again on the best seller list, and Warner Brothers picked up his Go-master/hit-man novel Satori as a vehicle for Leonardo DiCaprio. Don Winslow’s on the kind of roll that’d make other crime writers want to fold him up in a cement sofa bed next to Jimmy Hoffa. ![]()
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