Of course, Winslow's only joking about revealing the fast-food joint's secrets, but ironically, he has done just that with Kings of Cool, his just-released prequel to his New York Times-best-selling 2010 book, Savages, the film version of which was released on July 6, directed by Oliver Stone and starring Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek and John Travolta. They did not want us to shoot inside Taco Bell lest we reveal secrets.” “Which seemed to upset Taco Bell to no end.
“We were taking pictures inside the Taco Bell,” he explains. Later, over a trio of far more salubrious Baja-style fish tacos at 230 Forest Avenue in downtown Laguna, Winslow tells Jean, his wife of 28 years, about his taco troubles. He has no intention of eating the thing, which is just a prop for the surreptitious photo shoot. “I'm just trying to buy a taco.”įor the purposes of this story, Winslow is attempting to purchase a Doritos Locos Taco, a national sensation that's really nothing more than a steaming clod of cheesy beef dumped inside a stale, orange shell. “What are you complaining to me for, dude?” an innocent Winslow asks. “I told you already-no photos inside the restaurant,” the manager whines. The fat guy working the cash register is giving him the stink-eye, and the restaurant manager is waving his arms in the air. It's a Tuesday morning in late June, and there's a photographer nearby snapping pictures of Winslow. Winslow writes the kind of books that Tarantino might- if he had a heart.This is what Don Winslow is probably thinking as he stands in line at the Taco Bell at 699 S.
Doug Johnstone, Independent on SundayĪn epic prequel to Don Winslow's Savages. At times, The Kings of Cool verges on a kind of steel-tipped poetry, providing flashes of insight from perfectly carved sentences. And Winslow fulfils those ambitions fantastically well, with a stylistic swagger and bucketloads of empathy to go with a scintillating, perfectly executed crime-novel plot… Delivered in the sleekest, most sinewy prose you’re ever likely to read. Alastair Mabbot, HeraldĪ brilliant, hypnotic novel…A considerably more ambitious book than Savages, seeking to map out not only the history of Savages’ weird love triangle, but also to cast a panoramic eye over the whole history of the drug trade in California from the 1960s onwards. Packing more of an emotional heft than Savages, it’s written in the leanest prose possible, with a single-word paragraph being nothing unusual but managing to say more than you’d expect.
He writes in the simplest, clearest, most spare way of anybody I’ve read.
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