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Ben is a dogooder/social justice idealist; Chon (formerly KA John) is an ex-Seal. Together they grow hydro weed in the OC. Lots of it. One day they receive a message from the Baja Cartel. The BC wants to deal the product (where the big profit margins lie) and force Ben and Chon to be their growers. To enforce the point they kidnap their mutual lover, Ophelia, and threaten her with GBH (or worse). Another option is negotiated. The boys can stop supplying the BC if they fork over a cool $20 mil.

While the boys find a (very bloody) way out of their problem, Ophelia persuades her sympathetic jailer to let her have pizza, wi-fi and the opportunity to watch missed episodes of The Bachelorette.

In a jacket blurb Christopher Reich describes Savages as "the finest novel I have read in years." I wouldn't go that far, but I'd put it in my top ten or twelve, along with Don Winslow's lovely The Winter of Frankie Machine and his epic, The Power of the Dog. The latter might actually be my number one, tied with Ellroy's Blood's A Rover (who also hypes Winslow's book) and anything written by James Lee Burke.

Savages is part Elmore Leonard, part Cormac McCarthy, with each at the top of their game. It is, by turns, laugh out-loud funny and seriously grim. The blood flows like the Nile and the jokes come rapid fire. Welcome to the other side of life on the border. Winslow has now taken his seat at the table of the crime fiction gods. Whatever he attempts, in whatever mood, form, tone or sub-genre, the result is the same--a masterpiece.

Very highly recommended.


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Savages A Novel Don Winslow 9781439183366 Books Reviews

Winslow has written some great crime fiction, complete with the requisite humor and irony. He has also written some very grim fiction about the drug cartels that I find unappealing. This book is right on the cusp. Some gruesome scenes punctuate this novel (which lapses from prose to poetry on numerous occasions) but they do not overwhelm it. Watered down a bit for the film version (no happy ending here) this book is pure Winslow. I love Bobby Z, Frankie Machine and Winslow's other early works. I dislike the unrelenting violence of the cartel books. Savages is Winslow at his peak. This is his most memorable work. Read it! Own it! Try not to live it.
This is a brilliant exhibition in style and point of view. Fast paced, with compelling characters, and a great story. Savages has been out a while, so I won't summarize the plot. It's been done. I'd read Winslow's Neal Carey series years ago and really liked them, but this is a whole new game. It's as if he took the title as his key motivation and just wrote savagely on every page. I'd seen the movie, but it wasn't until I'd read about Savages in an interview with Winslow about his new book, Cartel, that I decided to give it a look. I'm so glad I did. And for all the art and violence of it, there's some first rate satire, as Winslow pokes fun at the botoxed facade of Southern California. Highly recommended.
This is one of the most depressing books I have ever read. The first half of the book is about 3 narcissistic people who do nothing all day but grow pot, smoke pot, sell pot and have sex--with each other. Totally wasted lives. I wanted to stop reading, but dang, when I buy a book, unless it is written poorly, I make myself finish it. And no one can say Don Winslow isn't a fresh voice, because he writes in a style I've never read before. The second half of the book is more pot growing, and growing violence, killing, savagery. And I can see why someone like Oliver Stone would want to turn this into a movie sex-drugs-and I-rock-and-roll. It's depressing and ends terrible. I think I almost hated this book as much as I hated the people who inhabited it. This is the 4th Winslow book I have read. Loved the first 3, (Power of the Dog, the Cartel, Winter of Frankie Machine), the Dawn Patrol was Ok, but kinda silly, but Savages....it left me feeling terrible, and wishing I was in therapy...
As I often mention in my reviews of crime fiction, I spent my career as a detective, four years of which were undercover, mostly in drug investigations. I'm always on the lookout for authors who "get it" - few do. Don Winslow gets it.

It's fun - and funny - reading. Fun, that is, between the torture and killings, when two young California pot dealers get hooked up with the Sinaloa Cartel, out of Mexico. What I like is that it shows the gray of it all... the players aren't pure good or pure evil, they're human beings with up and downsides. You see things from their eyes and some pretty unspeakable things are done by people you come to like. That was the world I saw when I was an agent... much grayer than you see in most novels, movies, TV. The evil becomes so much more powerful because of it. It's the banal evil of human society.

Be prepared for brutality and violence. None of it is gratuitous, though. It's a part of the world he writes about.
Winslow's characters are real, too. He develops them through their thoughts and actions, not through exposition. He knows these people. He knows what makes them do and say what they do.

I'm now reading "The Power of the Dog," Winslow's magnum opus about the Mexican cartels. It's a much different book, but every bit as good, if not better. I'm so happy I came across Don Winslow... I highly recommend his stuff, though maybe not while you're eating dinner.
Ben is a dogooder/social justice idealist; Chon (formerly KA John) is an ex-Seal. Together they grow hydro weed in the OC. Lots of it. One day they receive a message from the Baja Cartel. The BC wants to deal the product (where the big profit margins lie) and force Ben and Chon to be their growers. To enforce the point they kidnap their mutual lover, Ophelia, and threaten her with GBH (or worse). Another option is negotiated. The boys can stop supplying the BC if they fork over a cool $20 mil.

While the boys find a (very bloody) way out of their problem, Ophelia persuades her sympathetic jailer to let her have pizza, wi-fi and the opportunity to watch missed episodes of The Bachelorette.

In a jacket blurb Christopher Reich describes Savages as "the finest novel I have read in years." I wouldn't go that far, but I'd put it in my top ten or twelve, along with Don Winslow's lovely The Winter of Frankie Machine and his epic, The Power of the Dog. The latter might actually be my number one, tied with Ellroy's Blood's A Rover (who also hypes Winslow's book) and anything written by James Lee Burke.

Savages is part Elmore Leonard, part Cormac McCarthy, with each at the top of their game. It is, by turns, laugh out-loud funny and seriously grim. The blood flows like the Nile and the jokes come rapid fire. Welcome to the other side of life on the border. Winslow has now taken his seat at the table of the crime fiction gods. Whatever he attempts, in whatever mood, form, tone or sub-genre, the result is the same--a masterpiece.

Very highly recommended.