Don Winslow has worked as a movie theatre manager, a production assistant, and as a private investigator. In addition to being a novelist he now works as an independent consultant in issues involving litigation arising from criminal behaviour. His novels include The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, California Fire and Life, The Power of the Dog, The Winter of Frankie Machine and The Dawn Patrol. In 2012 Savages was released as a blockbuster film.

"A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno ... Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot" Austin Chronicle "The best crime thriller of the year ... Mixes two parts of Elmore Leonard with an equal portion of Carl Hiaasen to form an irreverent, ribald hybrid of a thriller that's pure fun" The Providence Journal "[Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire" The New York Times Book Review "A jazzy California thriller ... Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing - and had taken up surfing" Entertainment Weekly

Don Winslow has worked as a movie theatre manager, a production assistant, and as a private investigator. In addition to being a novelist he now works as an independent consultant in issues involving litigation arising from criminal behaviour. His novels include The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, California Fire and Life, The Power of the Dog, The Winter of Frankie Machine and The Dawn Patrol. In 2012 Savages was released as a blockbuster film.

"A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno ... Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot" Austin Chronicle "The best crime thriller of the year ... Mixes two parts of Elmore Leonard with an equal portion of Carl Hiaasen to form an irreverent, ribald hybrid of a thriller that's pure fun" The Providence Journal "[Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire" The New York Times Book Review "A jazzy California thriller ... Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing - and had taken up surfing" Entertainment Weekly

Don Winslow has worked as a movie theatre manager, a production assistant, and as a private investigator. In addition to being a novelist he now works as an independent consultant in issues involving litigation arising from criminal behaviour. His novels include The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, California Fire and Life, The Power of the Dog, The Winter of Frankie Machine and The Dawn Patrol. In 2012 Savages was released as a blockbuster film.

"A smoking, smoldering threat of a book that flickers and flames and inevitably goes inferno ... Cover to cover, it is hot, hot, hot" Austin Chronicle "The best crime thriller of the year ... Mixes two parts of Elmore Leonard with an equal portion of Carl Hiaasen to form an irreverent, ribald hybrid of a thriller that's pure fun" The Providence Journal "[Winslow finds] a dark, sinister lyricism in the forensics of fire" The New York Times Book Review "A jazzy California thriller ... Think Philip Marlowe if he were still sleuthing - and had taken up surfing" Entertainment Weekly