Book Review: 'City of Ruins' completes a masterful Don Winslow trilogy
by Bruce Desilva
Apr 01, 2024
2 minutes
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Years ago, when novelist first read Aeschylus, he recognized that the father of literary tragedies had explored every major theme found in modern crime fiction, from murder, vengeance, and corruption to power, justice and redemption. He became obsessed, he said recently, with the idea of retelling the ancient stories in a modern-crime fiction trilogy.
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