![]() ![]() Sure, I was interested in the world of Mexican drug lords that Winslow had explored previously in The Power of the Dog, and had decided to revisit in The Cartel. I read Savages in a night, and its prequel, Kings of Cool-also a book with a two-word first chapter-in a day, and when I heard that Winslow was about to publish his "big book" in The Cartel(out June 23), I gave him a call. He wasn't, of course, trying to inspire us to start our stories with obscene imperatives, but rather to give us permission to take risks at the beginning, and then follow them through to the end. It was a novel that seemed to be written as-and on-a dare, and so when Esquire's Editor in Chief David Granger read it, he turned around and sent a copy to every writer on his staff, as an inspiration. Indeed, Savages was less written than it was performed, from the first page to the last. It also had the distinction of serving as the first note of a novel written entirely in the key of FU. That last entrant in the great-first-line sweepstakes had the distinction of being not only the first line but the entire first chapter of Don Winslow's terrific 2010 surf-noir novel, Savages. Then there was "It was the best of times, it was the worst times." ![]()
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