She figures it’s where she got her taste for machinery.

The symbolism is cutting, no? O asked when wrapping the story up. Walked two thousand miles and went nowhere. Paqu got back to the three-million-dollar shack on Emerald Bay, strapped little Ophelia into one of those baby packs, and hit the treadmill. Yah, yah, yah, because Paqu is totally SOC R&B.īlonde hair, blue eyes, chiseled nose, and BRMCB-Best Rack Money Can Buy (you have real boobs in the 949 you’re, like, Amish)-the extra Lincoln wasn’t going to sit well or long on her hips. She popped me and bought a treadmill on the way home from the hospital.' 'She hated having me because she got all fat and stuff-which for Paqu was five LBs. Passive Aggressive Queen of the Universe.ĭid your mother hate you? Chon asked her this one time. O’s mother, Paqu, isn’t Indian or anything, Paqu is just what O calls her. Chuck was 404 when she was born, so Paqu had it her own way and tagged the baby girl Ophelia. It wasn’t her dad, O informs him, it was her mom. That is some very twisted wish fulfillment. Ophelia says that Chon doesn’t have attitude, he has baditude.Ĭhon responds that it’s a muy messed-up daddy who names his daughter after some crazy chick who drowns herself. By the end, you tend to know what each participant will do, which is the mark of a good character writer.Savages is a great novel that'll whet your appetite for more Winslow! Read more His dialogue is great and the characters are clearly developed through the book. Once you get used to it, it's actually sort of refreshing in that he's trying, I think, to match the sort of unpredictable nature of the story. Of the 4 novels I've read, the structure of Savages is the least conventional, with lots of missing punctuation, odd sentence lengths, etc. There's lots of violence and other action involved, which seems to be a trademark of Winslow's work.It's taken me awhile to appreciate Winslow's writing style.

The bargaining chip ends up being a young lady who's the shared girlfriend of the buds. The two buddies aren't interested, so the cartel decides to exert a little leverage.

A Mexican cartel member gets wind and decides they want the action. Two SoCal buddies, one an ex-Seal and the other more of a pacifist type, develop a killer strain of marijuana from seeds brought back from an overseas posting by the ex-Seal. Savages is more of 'micro' view, while the other two are more sprawling in scope.Savages' plot is pretty simple. 'Savages' is another SoCal drug book, and along with 'The Power of the Dog' and 'The Cartel', goes a long way toward educating readers about the issues at our southern border. I'm going through his catalog in reverse order, it seems, and every novel is excellent. 'm late to the Don Winslow party, but I'm damn happy I finally found it.

Savages by don winslow