Don Winslow’s crime novels are famous for their harshness. Now he wants to attack Donald Trump: with simple, clear sentences.
Don Winslow asks people to come into his house in a well-kept area of Rhode Island – and asks the photographer not to take pictures of the house. He has been receiving threats since he started getting involved in politics, he has been attacked on the street, there have been vandals on his property. Is he afraid? Winslow, this polite, gentle man of 70, bursts out laughing and shouts: “Not in front of those clowns!”
He has just returned from his book tour for the third volume of his Danny Ryan trilogy “City in Ruins”. A brilliant book – and his last. Because Winslow, one of the world’s most successful thriller authors, is simply quitting. One of “America’s greatest storytellers”, as Stephen King once called him, doesn’t want to write any more books, none of those wild, always well-researched rides through the world of dealers and cops in the great American drug war, no more masterpieces like “Days of the Dead”, no more “Years of the Hunter”.
A few weeks ago, Winslow released a statement: “I love writing and this was not an easy decision to make, but I will be going into battle.” Fighting Donald Trump is his new full-time job.
