After his trilogy on narco-trafficking, The Dog’s Claw, Cartel and The borderDon Winslow inaugurates a new triad, inspired by the tragedies of Greek mythology such as The Iliad or The Aeneid. It plunges us this time into the 1980s, in the city of Providence, where the Italian and Irish mafias share the territory. The capital of the state of Rhode Island on the east coast of the United States has really been the scene in these years of various and intensive trafficking and bloody settling of scores.
Don Winslow tells us the fate of a reserved young Irishman, the son of a godfather on the sidelines, not very inclined to violence, but who, by force of fate, will be at the center of a ruthless war that will take place deliver Irish and Italians.
And we find the vision of the world of Don Winslow, very pessimistic, and his ability to describe the violence of his country. Jean Esch is the translator of Don Winslow’s last novels. In this novel, we also find Winslow’s writing, both close to his characters, with subtlety and delicacy, and at the same time with dialogues of rare precision, lively, raw, unfiltered and violent.
Don Winslow’s hero is a sort of contemporary Aeneas. The writer has always maintained that the thriller was rooted in antiquity, or in the Shakespearean repertoire.
The City in Flames is thus the first novel of a new trilogy signed Don Winslow, and this trilogy will be the last of Winslow, after these three novels, the American author affirmed that he stopped his writing career.
The City in Flames by Don Winslow was published by Harper Collins.