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    Don Winslow’s ‘City on Fire’: Good, Old-Fashioned American Pulp

    by Michael Bourne Apr 28, 2022 4 minutes

    Don Winslow’s latest novel, City on Fire, set in the author’s native Rhode Island, is the first in a trilogy about a mob war between Irish and Italian crime families in 1980s Providence. It is not, to be frank, top-shelf Winslow. The plot is leisurely in ways his novels rarely are, and I felt the dearth of fully realized female characters more keenly than I had in his earlier books.

    But to put it this way is unfair to . Winslow has set the bar so high with books like , his paean to homicidal SoCal stoner cool, and with his masterwork, the Cartel Trilogy— , , and

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