


Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans.

SATORI It is the fall of 1951, and the Korean War is raging. Now critically acclaimed author Don Winslow continues Hel's story for the first time in this all-new, blockbuster thriller. Nicholai Hel-genius, mystic, and the perfect, formidable assassin-was first introduced to readers in Shibumi, the classic #1 bestseller by master storyteller Trevanian. Winslow said he’s writing the screenplay.Prepare to meet the world's most dangerous man.

He purchased the film rights for “The Last Good Heist,” by Tim White, Randall Richard and Wayne Worcester, the true story of the 1975 Bonded Vault robbery in Providence. In the meantime, Winslow is working on another film project, and it couldn’t be more Rhode Island. “I want as much input as I can, but in film or TV, no one really has control except the director, or maybe the editor.” I do have a seat at the table,” Winslow said. “I have more influence over what gets made than control. Now there is plenty of interest in using Winslow’s books, including 2017’s police novel “The Force” (2017), the "Cartel" trilogy and the “City on Fire” trilogy as material for either movies or TV series. Directed by Oliver Stone, it starred Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Benicio del Toro, Salma Hayek and John Travolta. Salerno and Winslow collaborated on a TV series, “UC: Undercover,” which aired on NBC in 2001-2002, and the 2012 movie “Savages,” based on one of Winslow’s books. “The Godfather” is a retelling of “Henry IV. Sure, there is Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, but you can go back way further than that. “But I think when we look at the crime genre - which I love - we see the roots in too shallow a way. “This can be read purely as crime fiction, with no reference to the classics,” Winslow said. What’s more, Winslow said the trilogy is based on the ancient Greek epic “The Iliad,” with characters roughly corresponding to their ancient counterparts, although no one is fighting in the streets of Providence with spears and swords.ĭanny Ryan, the book’s protagonist, is Winslow’s version of Aeneas, a relatively minor character in “The Iliad.” And just as the beautiful Helen allegedly sparked the Trojan War, a gorgeous blonde named Pam, by way of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Watch Hill, inadvertently sets off the gang wars in “City on Fire.” (Winslow will neither confirm nor deny.) Roots in ancient Greek epic 'The Iliad' The fishing village of Gilead might well be Galilee. A bar perched over the ocean, called the Spindrift, reads a lot like South Kingstown's Ocean Mist. Winslow has even changed some place names in his native South County.
