By Janet Maslin | November 23, 2010

SAVAGES by Don Winslow. Mr. Winslow wrote 12 previous crime novels before “Savages,” the one that jolts him into a different league. Boisterously stylish, outrageously brazen, this is a ferocious, wisecracking, high-wire act about a Southern California drug deal gone wrong. MORE

By Shane Salerno | August 10, 2010

Novelist Don Winslow and screenwriter Shane Salerno have known each other for a long time–eleven years to be exact. They have worked together, including creating the NBC TV series UC: Undercover, trust each other implicitly and often exchange early drafts of their work and talk on the phone every day, usually about film adaptations of Winslow’s work which Salerno produces. Winslow’s latest novel Savages will be directed by Oscar winner Oliver Stone and Salerno serves as executive producer. MORE

By Terry Ambrose | July 15, 2010

Don Winslow is on a roll. The author's 13th novel, Savages, just received rave reviews from Janet Maslin of the New York Times. It was a review in which Maslin said that this is "...the one that will jolt Mr. Winslow into a different league. 'Savages' is his 13th and most boisterously stylish crime book, his gutsiest and most startling bid for attention." MORE

By Janet Maslin | July 7, 2010

“Don Winslow is an author currently living in the United States, most recognized for his crime and mystery novels.” That’s the one-sentence entirety of the biographical notice Mr. Winslow has attracted on Wikipedia, though he has a dozen novels, a couple of movie deals, a slew of ardent reviews, a whip-cracking way with words and a whole lot of Southern California surfer baditude to his credit. MORE