Immodest Orgasm: How O got her nickname.

Cemented by the fact they romantically share O.

Heterosexual Life-Partners: Ben and Chon.

Fun with Acronyms: O calls her mother P.A.Q.U or Passive Aggressive Queen of the Universe.

Driven to Suicide: Dennis walks onto train tracks after he tells Ben and Chon he is into deep with the cartels.

Downer Ending: Ben, Chon and O overdose on morphine together after being mortally wounded.

The Don: Elena Sanchez Lauter of the Baja cartel.

Enemy Civil War: The Baja Cartel is in the middle of one at the start of the novel.

The Dragon: Lado, who acts as Elena's top enforcer.

Disproportionate Retribution: The cartel kidnaps O because Chon tells them Fuck You.

Disappeared Dad: Both Chon and O's dads left.

Dirty Cop: DEA Agent Dennis Cain, who acts as Ben and Chon's inside man.

Somewhat averted because Chon doesn't have PTSD, at least according to him.

Dark and Troubled Past: Chon is a former Navy SEAL who saw some bad things in the Middle East.

The Cartel: The main antagonists are cartel members, trying to move in on Ben and Chon's (relatively) small weed business.

50 cal Barrett 90 towards the end of the novel.

Boom, Headshot!: A common way characters go.

Blood Knight: Chon, ex-Navy SEAL who will go to war in a heartbeat.

Beware the Nice Ones: O is a sweet California girl, but is also the one who kills Elena.

Back-Alley Doctor: Ken 'Doc' Lorenzen, a former medic from Chon's unit who helps out when Ben's hurt.

More accurately, chainsaw-crazy, as that is his weapon of choice for beheadings.

Anyone Can Die: Every named character barring Magda is dead by the end.

Affably Evil: Elena, the leader of the Baja Cartel.He starts getting more violent once O is kidnapped.

Actual Pacifist: Ben starts the novel out this way.Adapted into a 2012 film of the same name, directed by Oliver Stone and starring Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch as Ben and Chon, with Blake Lively as O, Salma Hayek as Elena, and Benicio del Toro as Lado. But when Ben and Chon refuse the cartel kidnaps O. The Baja Cartel begins to take an interest and wants to partner up. Ben and Chon run a weed business together. The novel follows O, Ben, and Chon: three friends/lovers who live in California. Savages is a 2010 novel written by Don Winslow.

Savages by Don Winslow