Don Winslow is the author of twenty-six acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including eight New York Times bestsellers ( Savages , The Kings of Cool , The Cartel , The Force , The Border , City on Fire, City of Dreams and City in Ruins ). Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone from a screenplay by Shane Salerno, Winslow and Stone. Crime 101 , based on Winslow's short novel, will be released as a theatrical film from Amazon. He has also written a series of award-winning short stories for Audible narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.