Once a Villain

Don Winslows acclaimed fiction collection, featuring Crime 101, soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, and Monica Barbaro. No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken . . . Hailed as one of Americas greatest storytellers (Stephen King), #1 international bestseller Don Winslow presentssix intense short novels with characterssome familiar, some newconnected by the themes of crime, vengeance, guilt, and redemption. It includes: Crime 101: A string of high-level jewel heists up and down the Pacific Coast Highway has gone unsolved for years, mostly because the perpetrator has lived by a strict code he calls Crime 101.Police attribute the thefts to the Colombian cartels.But Detective Lou Lubesnicks gut says its the work of just one man.Now the lone-wolf jewel thief is looking for that fabled final last score.And Lou breaks all the rules of Crime 101 Broken: Police dispatcher Eva McNabb takes the call on a police officers brutal murder by a vicious drug gang.Its her own kid, Danny.Then Eva makes her own call.Summoning her elder son, Jimmy, also a cop, Eva commands: Avenge your brother.I want you to kill them all. The Last Ride: To former soldier and cowboy-turned-Border Patrol agent Cal Strickland, the illegals who try to jump his stretch of the Texas-Mexico border are a nameless, faceless group who need to be sent back to their side of the line. That is, until he sees the little girl in the cage. And Cal knows that the time has come to make a stand and help her escape. With his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, action, and the highest level of literary craftsmanship, Winslow delivers a collection of tales that have become classics of crime fiction. While Winslow is in widely fluent in many different prose techniques from the twisty punchline felonies of Elmore Leonard and Robert B. Parker to therebop riffs of James Ellroy to mega-works of dark literature a la Cor.