The Force and Savages author returns with a murder-filled Rhode Island tale.
“The Irish mob and the Italian mob in New England, they are all friends.
I think I wrote that first chapter 27 years ago.
Author Don Winslow and the cover of his book ‘City on Fire’.The Story Factory; HarperCollins
But I don’t think I was ready yet to write about my hometown.
It took a while.”
“I grew up in a little fishing town in Rhode Island,” he said.
“Where the book begins, I’m on that beach every day six months a year.
This is a fictional work.
It’s not as realistic as, say, the drug books, which were virtual documentaries.
But I read and I talked to a lot of people.
I had to hang out for a couple of years getting that down again.”
City on Fireis the first in another trilogy of books, which Winslow has already completed.
So there’ll be two more coming, one each year."
Winslow also spent part of lockdownhelping to craft videos which criticized President Trumpin collaboration with screenwriter Shane Salerno.
“It’s time to do something else,” Winslow told CBS Saturday Morning co-host Jeff Glor.
“I want to continue on speaking out where I see what I think is wrong.
It’s a big deal.
It’s not a decision I made easily.
Democrats have better ideas, better candidates, and a better vision for tomorrow.
What they don’t have is better messaging and I’m going to try and change that.”
“Look, I think he should be behind bars,” Winslow told EW.
“The man committed treason and tried to overthrow the government of the United States.
