City of Dreams: Don Winslow

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For every standout second tale like Empire Strikes Back or The Two Towers, there’s more than a few that fizzle. From the shores of Rhode Island to the deserts of California where bodies disappear, from the power corridors of Washington where the real criminals operate to the fabled movie studios of Hollywood where the real money is made, City of Dreams is a sweeping saga of family, love, revenge, survival and the fierce reality behind the dream.

He and a few buddies steal millions of dollars’ worth of the Morettis’ heroin, which he dumps into the ocean.He takes along several of his lieutenants who he constantly admonishes to keep a low profile and find honest work. They begin to put the squeeze on Hollywood, the city of dreams, after learning that the Rhode Island events and their lives are being turned into a movie, Providence, and it features Danny. Danny, once again, figures his way out of some tense situations and lands himself and his buddies on the west coast, free and clear. City of Dreams (2023) is the middle game of the Danny Ryan trilogy, which began with City on Fire (2021) and will end next year with next year’s City in Ruins (April 2024).

When they make their love public Danny live is in danger as the paparazzi take pictures of him and his new love interest and put them in a tabloid. Now, the New England Mafia, the FBI and the police are out to get him — one FBI subdirector, in particular, “wants Ryan delivered like KFC.Widowed and looking for a safer life for he and his young son Ian, Danny plans to go straight and eventually ends up in Hollywood, getting involved in a movie about his old life, and involved with a lead actress with plenty of demons. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him. Gustándome esta lectura, he de decir que ha bajado un pelín el nivel con respecto a la primera, tiene algunos peros que en el primero casi ni existían, pero en cualquier caso sigue siendo una buena lectura si te gusta el bueno de Winslow o las novelas de mafiosos.

This novel is TOO good to not fully understand the culture and environment that these characters lived in.Danny is our Odysseus, and this leg of the journey takes him from New Hampshire to Southern California. Problem though with Danny that we hear again and again throughout this novel is that Danny has a soft spot and can’t finish the job and off his opponents even though everyone in his crew knows it will come back to bite them.