Broken
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Don Winslow
Includes “Crime 101,” “Broken,” and “The Last Ride” – all soon to be major motion pictures!“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” – Stephen King"Winslow, whose work includes a dozen of the finest crime novels written in the last 20 years, displays all of his strengths, including propulsive narration, compelling characters and a tight, staccato writing style, in 'Broken,' a collection of six remarkable novellas." – Bruce De Silva, Associated PressNo matter how you come into this world, you come out broken . . . 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, pulse-pounding, heartbreaking best. In Broken, he creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops struggling with life on and off the job, private detectives, dope dealers, bounty hunters and fugitives, the lost souls driving without headlights through the dark night on the American criminal highway.With his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, action, and the highest level of literary craftsmanship, Winslow delivers a collection of tales that will become classics of crime fiction."With the passing of Elmore Leonard a few years back, it’s now safe to proclaim Winslow America’s greatest living crime writer. His consistency is matched only by his creativity, his talent exceeded by his ability to surpass himself time and time again." – Jon Land, Providence Journal
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Author
Don Winslow
Pages
368
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2020-04-07
ISBN
0062988913 9780062988911
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"This book isn't what I expected. With "short story" books it is always a grab bag, reliving characters from other books and seeing them in new situations, but aside from 1 of these stories I didn't think the others really had any bite. Broken out by story below:<br/><br/>- Broken: Out of all the stories this was the one I was most excited about, the New Orleans setting, a tale of revenge, however this whole tale felt very 1 dimensional. 3/5<br/>- Crime 101: I liked this one, a Heist, two adversaries circling one another and a rare surprise ending 4/5<br/>- The San Diego Zoo: One of the coolest first lines of a story, but I felt the whole thing rambled on. How the author tried to connect them in the end felt very forced 2/5<br/>- Sunset: Understanding these are from another series hes wrote that I haven't read, this didn't really have draw for me 3/5<br/>- Paradise: This story actually had a good turn of events, however the first half, instead of setting the scene in Hawaii, ended up a lot of fluff as well, with a convenience factor on how Chon got armed to the teeth 3/5<br/>- The Last Ride: I loved this story (last stories of a compilation are usually the best). I was fortunate to see the author speak at the Strand last year, he was clear on his political views and they aligned with mine. To be able to write from the perspective on the other side, to provide another context to "Make America great again", was really clever too me, and man, what an ending. <br/><br/>Overall 3/5"
Wesley Spence
"The story that starts with,"nobody really knew how the chimp got the revolver.""
Tom Swift
