And she likes the short, almost shaved, hair. He’s always been cut, but now it looks like he’s been carved with a scalpel. O thinks he looks even thinner than usual. You don’t want to hide that blonde hair, you don’t want those bright eyes peeking out from behind a niqab.Ĭhon, he ain’t small but he’s thin. Chon is pretty choosy for a guy who spends most of his time in Afghanistan or Iraq and doesn’t see much in the way of anything outside cammies or a burkha.Īctually, she can see how the burkha thing could be pretty hot if you played it off right.

“ That one?” she asks, pointing at a classic BB (Basically Baywatch) strolling down the boardwalk.Ī little dismissively, O thinks. Is what O is thinking as she sits between Chon and Ben on a bench at Main Beach and picks out potential mates for them. I wanted to trace that evolution from the 60s to the present,' Winslow said.Īdvisory: There is explicit language in this excerpt Book Excerpt: 'The Kings Of Cool' By: Don Winslow ''Kings of Cool' is largely about innocence and idealism turning into cynicism and communes turning into condos. 'I really wanted to write that origin story.I always knew their story even when I was writing 'Savages,'' he said. He's just published a prequel called 'The Kings of Cool.' But though he collaborated on the screenplay, Don Winslow wasn't finished with the characters of Ben and Chon. 'Savages,' the film, is directed by Oliver Stone and opens in theaters Friday. He says the marijuana dealers he writes about are a very particular breed.'Some of them are like 'Top Chef,' They all have their favorite recipes and they think everyone else's recipes aren't any good.and so they're prima donnas,' he said. 'I did a lot of research for the book and I think it's a very accurate reflection of that culture and that economy,' Winslow told Here & Now's Robin Young. The California drug industry is portrayed as hip, fun and young. They build such a successful business out of it that a Mexican drug cartel wants in, and mayhem ensues. It centers around Ben and Chon, two 20-something California slackers, who come up with a formula for very potent marijuana. He was unnerved by what he felt were restrictive 'rules,' honed over time, about how writers should create crime novels.īut in stepping away from the norms, he must have done something right. The book was critically acclaimed and is now a film. 'I sat down to write 'Savages' in a pretty snarky mood,' author Don Winslow says of his 2010 bestseller. (AP/Universal Pictures, Francois Duhamel) Actors Benicio Del Toro, left, and Salma Hayek in a scene from the film 'Savages,' based on the book by Don Winslow.

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