Jason Allison's Reviews > Broken

Don Winslow will probably be remembered for his Cartel Trilogy, and rightfully so, but these six novellas display a range few in the genre have. Alternately bleak, uplifting, hilarious, provocative and each crackling throughout with an urgency usually saved for the final acts of his full novels, the stories in Broken are among my favorites of his work, up there with The Force and Power of the Dog. I can’t think of anyone else who can mix character, plot, emotion and legit laugh out loud dialogue like Winslow. Perhaps Adrián McKinty’s Sean Duffy novels get there, but Winslow will give you six for the price of one.