We sit and blame Mexico for smuggling drugs across our border as if we were innocent in all this. We condemn Mexico for exporting drugs while ignoring the inverse dynamic -- we are importing the drugs.
The Kings of Cool picks up the story of the Savages trio -- the weed-dealing Ben, Chon and Ophelia -- a few years before Savages. Prequel? Not exactly -- at least writer Don Winslow doesn't look at it that way.
With Savages, author Don Winslow transformed himself from an author into a franchise. The Kings of Cool, a prequel, has all the snap and savvy of Savages but with even more ambition and heart.
It was an irresistible proposition when Meliville House asked us to be part of the judging panel for the Moby Awards for best and worst book trailers....
If I thought that a reader might experience a scene better as a film than as a novel, then I wrote it in screenplay form; if I thought that a scene would read better as poetry than as narrative prose, then I wrote it as poetry.