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As someone who has researched and written about the Mexican cartels and the futile 'war on drugs' for coming on twenty years, I know how tough a subject it is. Mind-bending, soul-warping, heartbreaking, it challenges your intellect, your beliefs, your faith in humanity and God.

~Don Winslow

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I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

~Don Winslow

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I get started at 5:30 in the morning and write till 10 A.M. Then I hike six or seven miles before going back to work.

~Don Winslow

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A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.

~Don Winslow

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Don't kid yourself: The justice system is a business. It's about money.

~Don Winslow

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For a while, many years ago, my job was to get mugged. My job was to walk around Times Square trying to get a mugger to attack me so that someone else could come in and arrest the mugger.

~Don Winslow

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Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

~Don Winslow

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I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years in the war on drugs. And the effect that that had on people.

~Don Winslow

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There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery.

~Don Winslow

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I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.

~Don Winslow

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 31st, 1953

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