Don Winslow's California Fire and Life to be Adapted for Film

The film adaptation of Don Winslow's Savages is currently in theaters but filmmakers are already looking forward to the next project featuring the author's words: California Fire and Life.

Published in 1999, the crime novel follows Jack Wade, once a rising star of the Orange County Sheriffs Department’s arson unit. But a minor scandal has cost him everything … except his encyclopedic knowledge of fire. Now working as an insurance claims investigator, Jack is called in to examine a suspicious claim: real estate millionaire Nicky Vale's house has burned to a crisp — with his young and gorgeous wife in it. Jack follows the evidence into the crime infested inferno of the California underworld, filled with Russian mobsters, Vietnamese hoods, American crooks, and enough smoldering vice to char the entire gold coast. Things get so hot and deadly that Jack might not make it out alive … that is until he decides to fight fire with fire.

Shane Salerno — who co-wrote the screenplay for Savages with Winslow — will produce.

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