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A Maxim Jakubowski selected title.
A doorstopper saga of a novel by Winslow, who has now moved away from his triumphant and award-winning novels about the war against drugs and now focuses his sharp intelligence and fiery prose on the endemic corruption at the heart of the New York police force. Dennis Malone, a sergeant in the Manhattan North Special Task Force is corrupt, but only in minor ways as some of his colleagues and bosses are implicated so much deeper into the shadow zones of compromise and outright crime. Otherwise he feels he is a good cop for whom the job is sacred and his trangressions just a rewarding distraction to his sworn mission in cleaning up the city. Now the Feds are on his trail and the battle to extricate himself from the morass is an upward task, as he tries to continue getting the daily job done, save his skin, protect his family. A veritable saga of modern New York, with grit and realism to spare and a mighty portrait of a soul divided against a backdrop we are all too familiar with from our newspaper headlines. Unsentimental, brutal, a major noir monument. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
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The Force Synopsis
'Probably the best cop novel ever written' Lee Child
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel - winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year - comes The Force, a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as The Wire.
Everyone can be bought. At the right price…
Detective sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gangs, drugs and guns in New York. For eighteen years he's been on the front lines, doing whatever it takes to survive in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean.
What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now he's caught in a trap and being squeezed by the FBI, and he must walk a thin line of betrayal, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.
Don Winslow's latest novel is a haunting story of greed and violence, inequality and race, and a searing portrait of a city on the edge of an abyss. Full of shocking twists, this is a morally complex and riveting dissection of the controversial issues confronting society today.
'There won't be a better cop novel this year than The Force by Don Winslow. Not next year, or the year after that, either' Linwood Barclay
'Intensely human in its tragic details, positively Shakespearian in its epic sweep - probably the best cop novel ever written' Lee Child
'Mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather, only with cops. It's that good' Stephen King
'Nobody understands the disaster of corruption better than Don Winslow. The Force exposes the dawning horror of how it eats into the best intentions' Val McDermid, No.1 bestselling author of Out of Bounds
'Hard-hitting … one of the great works of fiction about the police … superbly chronicled' The Times
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780008227524 |
| Publication date: |
8th March 2018 |
| Author: |
Don Winslow |
| Publisher: |
HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
482 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Crime and Mystery
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