Buy "Broken" on iTunes New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow has written twenty-one novels, including The Border, The Force, The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Winter of Frankie Machine and the highly acclaimed epics The Power of the Dog and The Cartel. A film and publishing deal for his novel The Death and Life of Bobby Z allowed Winslow to be full-time writer and settle in his beloved California, the setting for many of his books. [35], This article is about an author. He left to get a master’s degree in Military History and intended to go into the Foreign Service but instead joined a friend’s photographic safari firm in Kenya. Four of those novellas and the short … In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. With a wife and young son, Winslow went back to investigative work, mostly in California, where he and his family lived in hotels for almost three years as he worked cases and became a trial consultant. In the late 1970s, Winslow returned to New York City, first working as manager of a chain of movie theaters, then as a private investigator in movie theaters and the back alleys of Times Square. They currently live in Julian, California. Earlier books Savages and The Death and Life of Bobby Z were made into films, too. [2] He grew up in Perryville, a beach town near the village of Matunuck, Rhode Island. But each of these tales is long enough and so brilliantly written to be as much of a pager-turner as any of D Winslow's novels. He majored in African history at the University of Nebraska. He said the longest he has gone without writing after a book is completed was five days. In the mid-1990s, he moved to California with his wife, Jean, and their infant son, Thomas, and continued writing. This new collection of erotic short stories from acclaimed author Don Winslow presents lovers and strangers, ordinary men and women who are driven to the most extreme lengths by sexual fantasies whose terrible power they can neither understand nor control. He typically works on two books at a time, moving to the other when work on the first stalls. Buy "Broken" on Barnes & Noble Like a reunion with old friends! Buy "Broken" on Amazon His first published novel, A Cool Breeze on the Underground (1991) was written during this time. Twentieth Century Fox has optioned his next novel about a NYPD cop as well as The Cartel and The Power of the Dog. Five of his novels feature private investigator Neal Carey. They inspired Winslow to become a storyteller himself. [2][4] The Power of the Dog took six years to research and write, including a trip to Mexico to interview people with similar experiences as the book's characters. Winslow’s travels took him to California, Idaho and Montana before he moved to New York City to become a writer, making his living as a movie theater manager and later a private investigator in Times Square – ‘before Mickey Mouse took it over’. The Winslow effect is to fuse the grave and the playful, the body blow and the joke, the nightmare and the pipe dream. Many of his books are set in California. It was the first book in a saga about investigator Neal Carey and was nominated for an Edgar Award. . He returned to school to earn a master's degree in Military History, led safaris in Kenya and hiking trips in China's Sichuan province. Branching into television and film, Winslow, with his friend Shane Salerno, wrote a television series, UC/Undercover, and the two collaborated on the screenplay of his novel, Savages. Winslow is the recipient of the Raymond Chandler Award (Italy), the LA Times Book Prize, the Ian Fleming Silver Dagger (UK), The RBA Literary Prize (Spain) and many other prestigious awards. He left at age seventeen to study journalism at the University of Nebraska, where he earned a degree in African Studies. He led trips there as well as hiking expeditions in southwestern China, and later directed Shakespeare productions during summers in Oxford, England. It's flippant and dead serious simultaneously. It's one of those "stop what you're currently reading and jump on this one" books.