City of Dreams: Don Winslow

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There is danger coming, you can feel it building and this volume is merely the calm before the storm. Me ha gustado menos, que a pesar del buen ritmo general, el libro engancha y se lee muy bien, hay una parte, centrada en Hollywood, que se me ha hecho demasiado larga y a la que para mi gusto le sobraban páginas. Perhaps the most entertaining section of the book is the author’s insight into the Hollywood film industry, particularly comments that show how “the Hollywood film industry and the criminal class intersect.

A sweeping saga, for me it was one of the very best novels of 2022, and therefore set the bar extremely high for book two.Danny and his crew head out on the highway with Danny’s little boy as he is now widowed thanks to cancer and his elderly father who is fighting a losing battle with Alzheimer’s. Interestingly, one of the affairs is between Peter Moretti and Cassandra Murphy even as their families are trying to kill each other. Felt maybe a bit rushed at times, which is a bit strange as the author’s work always felt very carefully and well-paced previously. Oh no, Winslow really is plowing through the LA landmarks and tabloid stereotypes of successful actresses moving to the top in LA. Ryan who is now on the run from the FBI, the Mob, and the police as he tries to create a new life for himself in California.

Now he’s heading up to Hollywood to rein in two of his crew, who are shaking down a film being made about their involvement in the New England crime war.City of Dreams picks up exactly where City on Fire left off, and the result is even sharper, funnier, and more brilliant than its predecessor … but Winslow makes this Aeneid-inspired tale soar―sometimes from epic to venal, or from poignant to comical―and it makes the wait for the third book unbearable. His wife has just died, and he cannot even attend her funeral as he has enraged the Italian faction of the mob and is being hunted by the FBI, suspected of having murdered one of their (dirty) agents. These just feel rushed, less sensational and way too many plot lines and characters to hold the story together.

Plus, watching Danny struggle with his conscience (how much does he want, or not want, to remain a part of the world he left behind) and grapple with exactly what he would do to hold his family (both real and crew) together is fascinating and extremely well-done. City on Fire was the first Don Winslow book I read and I found it so engrossing, the characters so vivid, and the atmosphere so gritty, that I was hooked.Si os llama la atención, pero aún no habéis leído la primera parte, podéis encontrar mi reseña en el perfil. In the end, there is nowhere for any of these guys to turn because the old life is gone and the walls are all closing in on them. Except that Danny and these remnants of his family, as well as his loyal crew who are riding in cars streaming out behind him, are escaping a mob war — the Italians vs.

And when Hollywood starts shooting a film based on his former life, Danny demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire.

The crime fiction genre has no shortage of memorable mob sagas by such practitioners as Mario Puzo, James Ellroy, and Dennis Lehane. Peter Moretti had set up the Murphy gang and they fell for what appeared to be an effective drug heist, but it backfired resulting with Ryan and his crew on the run and Moretti trying to recover millions of lost drugs.