Don Winslow

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1991
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Boone Daniels

1 - The Dawn Patrol (May-2008)
2 - The Gentlemen's Hour (Aug-2011)

The Cartel

1 - The Power of the Dog (Apr-2005)
2 - The Cartel (Jun-2015)
3 - The Border (Feb-2019)

A Neal Carey Mystery

1 - A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Feb-1991)
2 - The Trail to Buddha's Mirror (Mar-1992)
3 - Way Down on the High Lonely (Nov-1993)
4 - A Long Walk Up the Water Slide (Dec-1994)
5 - While Drowning in the Desert (Jun-1996)

Savages

1 - The Kings of Cool (Jun-2012)
2 - Savages (Jul-2010)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • A Cool Breeze on the Underground

    A Neal Carey Mystery - 1

    Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columba University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met Joe Graham, a one-armed P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive New...

  • The Trail to Buddha's Mirror

    A Neal Carey Mystery - 2

    What begins as a routine missing person's case becomes a complex web of deceit, danger and international intrigue in this superb mystery. On sabbatical from duties as an operative for a group known as Friends of the Family, Neal Carey, is visited in ...

  • Way Down on the High Lonely

    A Neal Carey Mystery - 3

    FROM DOMESTIC WAR TO BARROOM BRAWLS, GRAD-STUDENT-TURNED-P.I. NEAL CAREY’S GOT MORE THAN STUDYING ON HIS PLATE. Graduate student Neal Carey’s three year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over … but his troubles are just beginning. ...

  • A Long Walk Up the Water Slide

    A Neal Carey Mystery - 4

    NEAL CAREY HAS TO KEEP THE MOB, THE FBI, AND A MAJOR TELEVISION PERSONALITY FROM KILLING HIS NEWEST CLIENT … BUT HE’S TEMPTED TO DO THE JOB HIMSELF. Sometime student and ever-reluctant detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doct...

  • While Drowning in the Desert

    A Neal Carey Mystery - 5

    JUST DESERTS Edgar and Shamus Award-nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal’s assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silve...

  • The Death and Life of Bobby Z

    When born loser Tim Kearney murdered a Hell's Angel, he didn't have a choice. Now, sentenced to the life without parole in a prison full of the angel's vengeful buddies, he doesn't have a chance. Then the Feds make him an offer: impersonate the late,...

  • California Fire and Life

    An insurance claims investigator, Jack Wade speaks the language of fire. He can walk into charred remains and know where the flames ignited and why. Now Jack is investigating a claim he knows isn't just fraudulent, it's murder. The house was a mul...

  • The Power of the Dog

    The Cartel - 1

    DEA agent Art Keller, who makes a fatal mistake as an idealistic rookie. On his first posting, to Culiacan, Mexico, capital of the drug trade, Art befriends the Barrera brothers. Their friendship will eventually turn into a personal vendetta of epic ...

  • The Winter of Frankie Machine

    Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex -- surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his longboard. He's a stand-up businessman, a devot...



  • The Dawn Patrol

    Boone Daniels - 1

    Boone Daniels lives to surf. Every morning he's out in the break off Pacific Beach with the other members of The Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is. Or nearly. They have "real j-o-b-s"; Boone works as a PI jus...

  • Savages

    Savages - 2

    Bestselling author Don Winslow offers up a smash hit in the making. A breakthrough novel that pits young kingpins against a Mexican drug cartel, Savages is a provocative, sexy, and sharply funny thrill ride through the dark side of the war on drugs a...

  • Satori

    Nicholai Hel -- genius, mystic, and the perfect, formidable assassin -- was first introduced to readers in Shibumi, the classic #1 bestseller by master storyteller Trevanian. Now, critically-acclaimed author Don Winslow continues Hel's story for the ...

  • The Gentlemen's Hour

    Boone Daniels - 2

    Boone Daniels lives to surf. Laid back, ultra -- California cool, the former cop turned PI begins each day with the Dawn Patrol, a close-knit group of surfers, best friends who not only ride waves together but have one another's backs out of the w...

  • The Kings of Cool

    Savages - 1

    In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated thrillers in recent memory -- and now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award-wi...

  • The Cartel

    The Cartel - 2

    From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel THE POWER OF THE DOG comes THE CARTEL, a gripping, true-to-life, ripped-from-the-headlines epic story of power, corruption, revenge, and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexic...

  • The Force

    Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true... All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is “the King of Manhattan North,” a, highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of “Da Force.” Malone and hi...

  • Michael Mann Project 1

  • The Border

    The Cartel - 3

    The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force. What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your fe...

  • Broken

    In six intense short novels connected by the themes of crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt and redemption, Broken is #1 international bestseller Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heart-stopping, heartbreaking best. In Brok...



  • Free Billy: A Novella

    Billy has figured it out. How to live free. That’s "free" as in "it costs no money" at hotel buffets, fast-food drink fountains, beachside shower, his old van.... From the master of crime fiction comes an unexpectedly whims...

  • City on Fire

    From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border), The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic new triad. Two criminal empires together control all of New England. ...

  • Deep Hole

    In Deep Hole, one of the world's foremost crime novelists crafts a sweet, poignant romance novella that could only come from his perfectly calibrated sense of time and place. It incorporates fights and misunderstandings and rejection, and is set agai...

  • The Heron

    “The Heron” is the nickname a big-city accountant has attached to himself in his new home near San Diego, where he's using the alias to avoid a hit man who may be after him. It seems a former client believes that The Heron has skipped tow...

  • City of Dreams

    Hot on the heels of the “superb” (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow.Danny Ryan, a young widower and mob under...

  • Dietrich: A Novella

    It’s the summer of ’77 in New York City, and the only thing more unnerving than the scorching heatwave is the rampant murder, leaving washed-up homicide detective Richard Dietrich on edge. When Dietrich investigates a brutal mob hit the brass doe...

  • City in Ruins

    Instant New York Times Bestseller!“The final shattering installment in a gangland trilogy to equal The Godfather. If you like Scarface and Goodfellas, this is where it’s at.” -- Stephen King“City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of ...

Award-Winning Books by Don Winslow

California Fire and Life
1999 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel
City on Fire
2022 Amazon Editors' Picks -- Mysteries & Thrillers


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Don Winslow has published 26 books.

Don Winslow does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, City in Ruins, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Don Winslow, A Cool Breeze on the Underground, was published in February 1991.

Yes. Don Winslow has 4 series.
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