Fortunes of war
CITY ON FIRE, by Don Winslow (Harper-Collins, $35)
The beach Don Winslow will head to as soon as we finish this interview is about a mile away. It’s not just any beach, but the one Winslow “basically grew up on” – a stretch of Rhode Island coast where waves roll on to a sandy shoreline and an adolescent Winslow learned to bodysurf. Where, decades later, after eclectic jobs on several continents, he once again spends time each day.
“From June to October, I go down there,” he says. “I write all day, then go down there about three in the afternoon and stay until sunset.”
For Winslow, the beach is a peaceful place. For Danny Ryan and the other characters in Winslow’s new novel, though, the peaceful Rhode Island beach – a place of family, friends and
