This is the prequel to Winslow's SAVAGES which was also made into a film a few years ago and not a very good one. Ben and Chon are young dudes, Ben a surfer, Chon a Special Forces guy but both are drug dealers, with various hothouses for growing their weed. Everything is fine until an older guy wearing an Old Guys Rule tee shirt sits down next to Ben at a diner and tells him to stop their business or he will make sure they stop it. Ben laughs, gets roughed up the next day. Chon does not take it easily, finds the two guys and breaks their arms and legs. Thus the conflict begins between the boys and the Association or Cartel. The progress of this attempt to shut off Ben and Chon's business is broken up with flashbacks to both Ben and Chun's early years, both hardscrabble, as well as that of their girlfriend, 'O" or Ophelia, who is estranged from her Mom. Lots of coincidences fill out the text, like the head of the cartel's adopted son is Chon's father. Needless to say, lots of guys die until some sort of compromise is reached and Chun and Ben survive to sell another day.
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