Winslow, whose crime novels set in the surfing world (like The Dawn Patrol) had a casual ease, seems to have written each word of this very long book in granite. The opponents are the Mexican narcotics kingpin Adá n Barrera, who manages to escape from prison and resume control of his business, and Art Keller, the DEA agent who, exhausted and his marriage kaput, retreated in the years following his capture of Barrera to the silence of a monastery. At heart, this is the familiar tale of symbiosis between pursuer and pursued, reconfigured for the war on drugs and given a mean noir edge. Various chapters bear epigraphs from Hemingway, Shakespeare, and the Bible.

Winslow has envisioned his novel on an epic scale, evident not just in the length, almost 600 pages, but in the grave tone. He’s repped by The Story Factory and CAA.A Mexican drug lord heads into a final showdown with the obsessed American Drug Enforcement Administration agent who has been dogging him for years in this vast and ambitious thriller from Winslow ( The Kings of Cool, 2012, etc.). Winslow has set The Border Trilogy at FX Satori is set up at Warner Bros with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way The Force has James Mangold and Matt Damon attached at Disney, with a Scott Frank script Winslow’s Neal Carey Series is set at MRC with Rian Johnson and several of the novellas in his latest title, Broken, are in the process of landing. The first book introduces Ryan and takes him across years and from New England to Hollywood to Las Vegas. Winslow has created an entire world, taking stories that are 2,000 years old and melding them with contemporary crime fiction. Each character and plot point has analogies in the Iliad, the Aeneid ,the Odyssey, Greek tragedy and classical mythology. The plot of City on Fire directly tracks that of Homer’s epic. “I wanted to see if I could tell that story in a modern context and still have it stand on its own.” “The ancient Greeks gave us all the themes we still use in modern crime fiction – honor, courage, cowardice, loyalty, betrayal and tragedy,” Winslow said. Why 'Cartel' Author Don Winslow & 'Avatar' Sequels Co-Writer Shane Salerno Put Work On Hold To Make Anti-Trump Videos Watched By 100 Millionīut per Winslow, City on Fire is more than just a crime story – it’s a retelling of the classical Iliad.

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