New Releases by Don Winslow

“The best crime fiction I've read in twenty years.” — Stephen King #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow—America’s King of Crime Fiction—is back and he’s better than ever. The trademark literary style, trenchant wit, and incisive characterization that have made Don Winslow a repeat New York Times bestselling author and “America’s greatest living crime writer” (Providence Journal)are on brilliant display in this new book sure to delight Winslow’s most devoted fans and first-time readers. The multi-million-dollar casino heist is impossible—it can’t be done. That’s what makes it irresistible to a legendary robber facing the rest of his life in prison for his “Final Score.” An ambitious, hard-working college-bound teenager has a side job delivering illegal booze to “The Sunday List” until a crooked cop, a seductive customer, and a fake guru threaten to end his dreams. Two wise guys tell each other a “True Story” over breakfast at a diner. It’s all bullshit and laughs until someone else has to pick up the check. An otherwise honest patrolman has to make an excruciating choice between his loyalty to the job and his love for a ne’er-do-well cousin in “The North Wing.” The entitled, substance-addicted movie star that surfer/PI Boone Daniels and his crew are hired to babysit in “The Lunch Break” is a problem. She also has a problem—someone wants her dead. Finally, the one terrible, momentary mistake that a devoted family man makes sends him to prison and on a “Collision” course between the man he wants to be and the killer he’s forced to become to survive. The Final Score is a propulsive, perceptive, and deeply immersive book of crime writing — the ultimate testament to Don Winslow's prowess as a living legend of the genre.

Rapinare quel casinò è assolutamente impossibile. Ed è proprio questo che rende l’idea irresistibile per un leggendario rapinatore che rischia di trascorrere il resto della propria vita in prigione. Ma in fondo, quello che conta davvero è L’ultimo colpo. Per raggranellare qualche soldo, un adolescente ambizioso e intraprendente consegna alcolici illegali alle persone che compaiono su quella che lui chiama La lista della domenica; finché un poliziotto corrotto, un’affascinante cliente e un falso guru non minacciano di infrangere i suoi sogni. In una tavola calda, due uomini della mala raccontano Una storia vera. Sembrano solo battute e pettegolezzi, ma poi si scopre che toccherà a qualcun altro pagare il conto. Un poliziotto solitamente onesto si trova a dover scegliere tra la lealtà al suo lavoro e l’affetto per un cugino scansafatiche il cui destino è L’ala nord. Per il surfista-detective Boone Daniels e la sua squadra, la star del cinema che sono incaricati di sorvegliare durante La pausa pranzo è un problema. Ma anche lei ha un problema: qualcuno la vuole morta... E per finire, un singolo, terribile errore manda in prigione un devoto uomo di famiglia e mette in rotta di Collisione l’uomo che vuole essere e l’assassino che è costretto a diventare. Sei storie dinamiche e profondamente incisive in cui Don Winslow fonde umanità, umorismo e azione, catturando ancora una volta l’essenza del mondo criminale e le sue sfumature. IL MAESTRO ASSOLUTO DEL CRIME TORNA A SORPRESA CON UNA STRAORDINARIA RACCOLTA DI SEI NUOVISSIMI ROMANZI BREVI, PIÙ INCISIVI E APPASSIONANTI CHE MAI “Ci sono tre scrittori di crime da cui sono irrimediabilmente dipendente. Uno di loro è Don Winslow.” - James Patterson “Il miglior crime che io abbia letto negli ultimi vent’anni.” - Stephen King "Ti fa gelare il sangue. Ti fa ridere. A volte nella stessa pagina. È Don Winslow, più camaleontico che mai! Non è mai troppo tardi per leggere Don Winslow. Se dovete iniziare da qualche parte iniziate da qui!" - Gigi Datome "Winslow non scrive noir. Lo tiene in vita. E lo fa con una scrittura che non concede scampo." - Piergiorgio Pulixi

Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career. 'The final shattering installment in a gangland trilogy to equal The Godfather. If you like Scarface and Goodfellas, this is where it's at.' Stephen King Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own. Danny thought he had buried his past, but now it reaches up to him from the grave to pull him down. Old enemies surface, and when they come for Danny they vow to take everything - not only his empire, not just his life, but all that he holds dear, including his son. To save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was - and never wanted to be again. Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion. 'City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. The novel builds and builds, the drama, the suspense, our feelings for the central characters - and then everything comes together. Actually, everything explodes. It's a beautiful, artful thing.' James Patterson 'An addictive finale ... Winslow's ambitious narrative culminates with an exhilarating climax that beautifully wraps up the series' many plot threads. It's a fitting swan song from a giant of crime fiction.' Publishers Weekly 'With the Danny Ryan trilogy, Winslow seems destined to claim a place beside Mario Puzo's The Godfather on the Mount Rushmore of American crime fiction.' Associated Press

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author Robert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula. Not surprisingly, the Bank, his notoriously exclusive backer, wants to keep an eye on its investment. But so does the CIA. And the Chinese government. And a few shadier organizations. So when Pendleton disappears from a conference in San Francisco, along with all of his research, Neal Carey enters the picture. Neal knows the Bank is calling in its chips in return for paying his grad school bills. He thinks this assignment will be a no-brainer until he meets the beguiling Li Lan and touches off a deadly game of hide-and-seek that will lead him from San Francisco’s Chinatown to the lawless back streets of Hong Kong, and finally into the dark heart of China. In a world where no one is what they seem, Neal must unravel the mystery of a beautiful woman and reach the fabled Buddha’s Mirror, a mist-shrouded lake where all secrets are revealed.

New York Times Bestseller Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, “The Godfather for our generation” (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel and The Border). Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. A quiet, peaceful existence. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him. And when Hollywood starts shooting a film based on his former life, Danny demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire. Then he falls in love. With a beautiful movie star who has a dark past of her own. As their worlds collide in an explosion that could destroy them both, Danny Ryan has to fight for his life in a city where dreams are born. Or where they go to die. From the shores of Rhode Island to the deserts of California where bodies disappear, from the power corridors of Washington where the real criminals operate to the fabled movie studios of Hollywood where the real money is made, City of Dreams is a sweeping saga of family, love, revenge, survival and the fierce reality behind the dream.

Widely acclaimed as the Vietnam War's most highly decorated soldier, Joe Ronnie Hooper in many ways serves as a symbol for that conflict. His troubled, tempestuous life paralleled the upheavals in American society during the 1960s and 1970s, and his desperate quest to prove his manhood was uncomfortably akin to the macho image projected by three successive presidents in their "tough" policy in Southeast Asia. Looking for a Hero extracts the real Joe Hooper from the welter of lies and myths that swirl around his story; in doing so, the book uncovers not only the complicated truth about an American hero but also the story of how Hooper's war was lost in Vietnam, not at home. Extensive interviews with friends, fellow soldiers, and family members reveal Hooper as a complex, gifted, and disturbed man. They also expose the flaws in his most famous and treasured accomplishment: earning the Medal of Honor. In the distortions, half-truths, and outright lies that mar Hooper's medal of honor file, authors Peter Maslowski and Don Winslow find a painful reflection of the army's inability to be honest with itself and the American public, with all the dire consequences that this dishonesty ultimately entailed. In the inextricably linked stories of Hooper and the Vietnam War, the nature of that deceit, and of America's defeat, becomes clear.

Seis cautivadores novelas breves escritas por uno de los grandes de la novela policiaca El autor bestseller internacional Don Winslow regresa con estas seis novelas breves hilvanadas por sus temas más explorados: el crimen, la corrupción, la venganza, la justicia, el engaño y la redención. Winslow recrea un mundo lleno de pillos veteranos, sinvergüenzas, policías angustiados que luchan por sobrellevar sus vidas dentro y fuera del trabajo, detectives privdados, traficantes de heroína, cazarrecompensas y fugitivos, aquellas almas sombrías que pululan los Estados Unidos al anocher. Rotos, del autor de la saga monumental sobre el mundo narcobélico americano (El poder del perro, El cártel y La frontera), es un nuevo clásico del genero. «[Winslow] es uno de los mejores escritores de thrillers del planeta». --Esquire DON WINSLOW (Nueva York, 1953), exdetective privado, es el autor de veintiún novelas, entre las que cabe destacar: Un soplo de aire fresco, Muerte y vida de Bobby Z., El invierno de Frankie Machine, y la trilogía formada por Salvajes, Satori y Los reyes del cool. Ha recibido varios premios, como el Premio Raymond Chandler (Italia), el Premio LA Books (EE. UU.), el Ian Fleming Silver Dagger (Reino Unido) y el Premio Literario RBA (España), entre otros. La trilogía El poder del perro, El cártel, y La frontera serán adaptadas para una serie por FX. Winslow vive en el pequeño pueblo de Julián, California, a una hora de la frontera con México.

Davis er en juveltyv med klare regler. Ronald ”Lou” Lubesnick er en politimand med en teori, som hans kolleger ikke tror på: De seneste fire års lukrative juveltyverier i Highway 101-området er en enkelt mands værk. Ormon er en succesrig ung juveltyv, som kommer i forbindelse med Davis. Gennem højrisiko-forsikringsagenten Sharon Coombs kommer Lou på sporet af Highway 101-tyven, og det ender med et showdown mellem de tre mænd under Davis’ sidste kup … Don Winslow har skrevet 21 anerkendte, prisvindende internationale bestsellere, inklusiv New York Times-bestsellerne Styrken og Grænsen samt de internationale bestsellere The Cartel, De smukke vilde, I hundenes vold og Frankie Machines vinter. De smukke vilde blev filmatiseret som Savages af den tredobbelte Oscarvindende manuskriptforfatter og instruktør Oliver Stone. Filmatiseringsrettighederne til Winslows trilogi om USA's mangeårige krig mod narko, I hundenes vold, The Cartel og Grænsen, er solgt til streaming og bliver sendt som ugentlige tv-serier i 2020. Winslow er forhenværende privatdetektiv, antiterrorinstruktør og retssagskonsulent, og han bor i Californien og på Rhode Island. Novellen er lavet til en film med Chris Hemsworth og Mark Ruffalo i hovedrollerne.

Menselijk, eerlijk en bruut. In Gebroken verenigt Don Winslow de belangrijkste thema's binnen de misdaad – corruptie, wraak, rechtvaardigheid, verlies, verraad en schuld – in zes geweldige verhalen. Dit boek neemt je mee in een wereld van professionele dieven, politieagenten, draaideurcriminelen, privédetectives, drugsdealers en verloren zielen in de nacht. Met zijn kenmerkende mix van psychologisch inzicht, humor, actie en een geweldige literaire pen schreef Don Winslow een boek dat voorbestemd is een klassieker te worden in het misdaadgenre.

Sex berättelser från ett land i spillror Kämpande poliser som balanserar på gränsen mellan rätt och fel, som vigt sina liv åt att bekämpa droger och våld. Kriminella på samhällets botten – och på dess toppnivåer. Knarkmiljonärer, diamanttjuvar, prisjägare, privatutredare, människosmugglare, flyktingar och de förlorade själar som utan strålkastare färdas genom nattens mörker längs USA:s kriminella motorvägar. I sex starka, nyskrivna kriminalberättelser skildrar Don Winslow de människor som lever i spillrorna av ett land i sönderfall. Det handlar om korruption, hämnd, rättvisa, förlust, svek, och om människans inneboende grymhet och godhet. Allt skildrat med thrillermästaren Winslows karakteristiska humor, nerv och knivskarpa språk.

Don Winslow’s acclaimed story collection, featuring “Crime 101,” soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry, Monica Barbaro, Barry Keoghan, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte. No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken . . . Hailed as “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Stephen King), #1 international bestseller Don Winslow returns with six intense short novels with characters—some familiar, some new— connected by the themes of crime, vengeance, guilt and redemption. It includes Crime 101: A string of high-level jewel heists up and down the Pacific Coast Highway has gone unsolved for years, mostly because the perpetrator has lived by a strict code he calls “Crime 101.” Police attribute the thefts to the Columbian cartels. But Detective Lou Lubesnick’s gut says it’s the work of just one man. Now the lone-wolf jewel thief is looking for that fabled final last score. And Lou breaks all the rules of Crime 101… Broken: In the volume’s title story, police dispatcher Eva McNabb takes the call on a police officer’s brutal murder by a vicious drug gang. It’s her own kid, Danny. Then Eva makes her own call. Summoning her elder son, Jimmy, also a cop, Evan commands: Avenge your brother. I want you to kill them all. The Last Ride: To former solider and cowboy-turned-Board Patrol agent Cal Strickland, the illegals who try to jump his stretch of the Texas-Mexico border are a nameless, faceless group who need to be sent back to their side of the line. That is until he sees the little girl in the cage. And Cal knows that the time has come to make a stand and help her escape. With his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, action, and the highest level of literary craftsmanship, Winslow delivers a collection of tales that will become classics of crime fiction. “While Winslow is in widely fluent in many different prose techniques — from the twisty punchline felonies of Elmore Leonard and Robert B. Parker to the rebop riffs of James Ellroy to mega-works of dark literature a la Cormac McCarthy and James Lee Burke — he's not ‘copying’ anyone. He's writing his OWN masterpieces and just happens to do so in the fashion appropriate to the work.” — The Day (CT) “Will make you laugh and cry, but in the end will explain why The New York Times thinks Winslow is simply ‘the greatest’ . . . He crafts every sentence until it beats to a rhythm of its own. . . . Broken is devastating and brilliant.” — Sydney Morning Herald

Mit tehetünk, ha többé nincsenek határok? Amikor köddé válni látszanak azok a választóvonalak, amelyekről azt hittük, léteznek? Honnan tudhatjuk, hol vessük meg a lábunkat, ha immár meghatározhatatlan, melyik oldal a miénk? Art Keller negyven éve folytatja szakadatlan harcát Amerika leghosszabban fennálló konfliktusában: a drogok elleni háborúban. Megbízzák a DEA, a kábítószer-ellenes ügynökség vezetésével, ám új tisztségében azzal kell szembesülnie, hogy egyetlen levágott szörnyfej után harminc másik terem annak helyébe. Adán Barrera, a Sinaloa kartell keresztapafigurájának, végső hagyatéka az Amerikán végigsöprő heroinjárvány. Keller a halálos áradatban vakmerőn beleveti magát egy résbe, ahol azonnal veszedelmes ellenségekkel találja szembe magát és megtörténik az elképzelhetetlen is – az Egyesült Államok irányítását legújabban átvevő kormányapparátusról kiderül, hogy a soraiból többen egy ágyban hálnak ugyanazokkal a drogcsempészekkel, akiket Keller legyőzni próbál. Art Keller, immár nemcsak a kartellek ellen küzd, de a saját országa vezetői ellen is. Most érkezett el számára a végső lecke ideje – az, hogy nincsenek határok. A bosszúról, erőszakról, korrupcióról és igazságszolgáltatásról szóló szerteágazó mesének, Don Winslow lehengerlő, díjnyertes, nemzetközi bestseller-trilógiájának e befejező része telítve van feledhetetlen jelenetekkel, amelyek mintha mind az újságok szalagcímei mögött bújnának meg. Sokkoló brutalitásában, nyers emberségében A határ a modern Amerikáról készült kendőzetlen portré, a mai idők története – a mai olvasó számára.

Ha trascorso la vita combattendo la guerra al narcotraffico dall'altro lato del confine. Adesso è tornato a casa, ma la guerra lo ha seguito. Dopo Il potere del cane e Il cartello , l'attesissimo ultimo atto di un romanzo epico colossale. Il capolavoro di Don Winslow.

Una novela del autor de superventas de los New York Times y recipiente del premio Raymond Chandler, Don Winslow, acerca del padrino de la mafia Sam Giancana--parecido en estilo y contendio a The Cartel.

Knallhart, erschütternd und glänzend recherchiert: »Jahre des Jägers« ist das monumentale Finale von Don Winslows Polit-Thriller-Trilogie »Die Kartell-Saga«, die zum Welt-Bestseller wurde. Totgeglaubte leben länger – das muss auch US-Drogenfahnder Art Keller erfahren, der jeden Eid geschworen hätte, Adán Barrera endgültig erledigt zu haben. Doch was Keller für die ultimativ letzte Schlacht gegen den Drogen-Baron gehalten hat, war nur der Anfang des Krieges, den Mexikos Kartelle nun gegen die USA entfesseln: Die Menge des jährlich importierten Heroins vervielfacht sich, und mächtige Drogen-Kartelle versuchen, die amerikanische Regierung zu unterwandern, an deren Spitze ein umstrittener neuer Präsident steht. Auf den Spuren des tot geglaubten Adán Barrera gerät Art Keller schnell mitten zwischen die Fronten des völlig außer Kontrolle geratenen Drogen-Krieges, denn der Feind kommt aus einer gänzlich unerwarteten Richtung ... Mit dem epischen Finale seiner Polit-Thriller-Trilogie über den Drogen-Krieg zwischen Mexiko und den USA zeichnet Bestseller-Autor Don Winslow das Porträt eines zutiefst zerrissenen Amerika zwischen Gier und Korruption, Rache und Gerechtigkeit, Heldenmut und Hinterhältigkeit. Don Winslows Kartell-Saga umfasst die Polit-Thriller »Tage der Toten«, »Das Kartell« und »Jahre des Jägers«. "Ich kann es kaum erwarten, das zu lesen. Winslow in Bestform." Stephen King

ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF THE YEAR Contains an excerpt from Don Winslow’s explosive new novel, City on Fire! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Washington Post • NPR • Financial Times • The Guardian • Booklist • New Statesman • Daily Telegraph • Irish Times • Dallas Morning News • Sunday Times • New York Post "A big, sprawling, ultimately stunning crime tableau." – Janet Maslin, New York Times "You can't ask for more emotionally moving entertainment." – Stephen King "One of the best thriller writers on the planet." – Esquire The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you’re on? The war has come home. For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: The War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world’s most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin?the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adán Barrera?has left him bloody and scarred, cost him the people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul. Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created thirty more that are wreaking even more chaos and suffering in his beloved Mexico. But not just there. Barrera’s final legacy is the heroin epidemic scourging America. Throwing himself into the gap to stem the deadly flow, Keller finds himself surrounded by enemies?men who want to kill him, politicians who want to destroy him, and worse, the unimaginable?an incoming administration that’s in bed with the very drug traffickers that Keller is trying to bring down. Art Keller is at war with not only the cartels, but with his own government. And the long fight has taught him more than he ever imagined. Now, he learns the final lesson?there are no borders. In a story that moves from deserts of Mexico to Wall Street, from the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington, D.C., Winslow follows a new generation of narcos, the cops who fight them, street traffickers, addicts, politicians, money-launderers, real-estate moguls, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country. A shattering tale of vengeance, violence, corruption and justice, this last novel in Don Winslow’s magnificent, award-winning, internationally bestselling trilogy is packed with unforgettable, drawn-from-the-headlines scenes. Shocking in its brutality, raw in its humanity, The Border is an unflinching portrait of modern America, a story of—and for—our time.

En Irak, Charles Sprague a sauvé la vie de Frank Decker. Aujourd'hui, l'heure est venue pour Frank de prouver sa reconnaissance : Kim, la superbe, la parfaite épouse de Charles, s'est volatilisée dans un luxueux centre commercial de Miami. La spécialité de Frank, c'est de retrouver les personnes disparues. Pour récupérer Kim, il sillonne l'Allemagne, où une bande de mafieux ukrainiens tient un florissant réseau de call-girls. Au fil de sa quête, sa loyauté envers Charles est mise à rude épreuve : son ami milliardaire ne fréquente pas seulement la jet-set, mais aussi des gangsters. Et Kim n'est pas forcément l'ange blond que l'on croyait. Il y a de la trahison dans l'air. Reste à savoir qui est le vrai traître... Fils d'un marin et d'une bibliothécaire, Don Winslow, né en 1953, a fait des études de journalisme à l'université du Nebraska. Il a beaucoup voyagé avant de s'établir à New York pour écrire, gagnant sa vie comme gérant de cinéma, détective privé et guide de safari. Cartel, le plus célèbre de ses dix-huit romans traduits en une vingtaine de langues, sera bientôt adapté au cinéma par Ridley Scott. Don Winslow vit à San Diego, paradis du surf. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Philippe Loubat-Delranc " Un véritable page turner, propulsé par une action constante. " Hamburger Abendblatt

The New York Times bestselling second novel in the explosive Power of the Dog series—an action-filled look at the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Book Two of the Power of the Dog Series It’s 2004. Adán Barrera, kingpin of El Federación, is languishing in a California federal prison. Ex-DEA agent Art Keller passes his days in a monastery, having lost everything to his thirty-year blood feud with the drug lord. Then Barrera escapes. Now, there’s a two-million-dollar bounty on Keller’s head and no one else capable of taking Barrera down. As the carnage of the drug war reaches surreal new heights, the two men are locked in a savage struggle that will stretch from the mountains of Sinaloa to the shores of Veracruz, to the halls of power in Washington, ensnaring countless others in its wake. Internationally bestselling author Don Winslow's The Cartel is the searing, unfiltered epic of the drug war in the twenty-first century.

Denny Malone es un condecorado sargento de policía y el auténtico líder de la Unidad Especial de Manhattan Norte. Él y sus hombres son los más listos, los más duros, los más rápidos, los más valientes y los más canallas. Día y noche, durante los dieciocho años que ha pasado en el cuerpo de policía, Malone ha combatido en primera línea de fuego por las calles de Nueva York, una ciudad en la que nadie está limpio, ni siquiera el propio Malone. Ahora que su corrupción está a punto de salir a la luz, deberá decidir de una vez por todas qué significa ser un buen policía.

Instant New York Times Bestseller Best of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, TheRealBookSpy.com, the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK) “The Force is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather, only with cops. It’s that good.” — Stephen King The acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel—voted one of the Best Books of the Year by more than sixty publications, including the New York Times—returns with a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as Mystic River and The Wire. Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true . . . All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He is “the King of Manhattan North,” a, highly decorated NYPD detective sergeant and the real leader of “Da Force.” Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, and the baddest, an elite special unit given unrestricted authority to wage war on gangs, drugs and guns. Every day and every night for the eighteen years he’s spent on the Job, Malone has served on the front lines, witnessing the hurt, the dead, the victims, the perps. He’s done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean—including Malone himself. What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash in the wake of the biggest heroin bust in the city’s history. Now Malone is caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds, and he must walk the thin line between betraying his brothers and partners, the Job, his family, and the woman he loves, trying to survive, body and soul, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all. Based on years of research inside the NYPD, this is the great cop novel of our time and a book only Don Winslow could write: a haunting and heartbreaking story of greed and violence, inequality and race, crime and injustice, retribution and redemption that reveals the seemingly insurmountable tensions between the police and the diverse citizens they serve. A searing portrait of a city and a courageous, heroic, and deeply flawed man who stands at the edge of its abyss, The Force is a masterpiece of urban living full of shocking and surprising twists, leavened by flashes of dark humor, a morally complex and utterly riveting dissection of modern American society and the controversial issues confronting and dividing us today.

Das faszinierende Krimi-Epos des amerikanischen Bestseller-Autors Don Winslow In den Straßenschluchten von New York entwirft der internationale Star-Autor Don Winslow ein alptraumhaft realistisches Szenario von Drogen, Menschenhandel und Mord. Eine todbringende Allianz von staatlichen Stellen und organisiertem Verbrechen: Sie sehen sich als Elitetruppe der Polizei, eine verschworene Einheit, ausgestattet mit weitreichenden technischen und rechtlichen Möglichkeiten. Gemeinsam sollen sie für Ruhe und Ordnung in ihrem Revier sorgen, dem nördlichen Manhattan. Und genau das tun sie. Hier gelten ihre Spielregeln, hier geschieht nichts ohne ihr Wissen. Doch die Truppe ist extremem Stress ebenso ausgesetzt wie extremen Risiken ... und extremen Verlockungen ... Ein gefeierter Thriller über die kriminellen Machenschaften der New Yorker Polizei. Ein Meisterwerk von Don Winslow – erschütternd, brutal und unnachgiebig. »Don Winslows "Corruption" ist faszinierend, eine echter Wurf. Stellen Sie sich "Der Pate" vor, aber mit Cops. So gut ist es.« – Stephen King »Mit eindringlicher Menschlichkeit in den tragischen Details und mit einer epischen Monumentalität, die geradezu an Shakespeare erinnert – vermutlich der beste Cop-Roman aller Zeiten.« – Lee Child »In diesem epischen Roman voll niederschmetternder moralischer Komplexität blickt Don Winslow durch die Augen eines höchst erfahrenen und korrupten Polizisten tief in die Seele des modernen Amerika. Leser von modernen Meistern wie Don DeLillo, Richard Price und Geroge Pelecanons werden reichlich belohnt werden.« – Publishers Weekly »Don Winslow hat das kreiert, was wahrscheinlich zum Inbegriff des Polizei-Romans werden wird.« – Booklist

Der Spiegel-Bestseller "Das Kartell", die Fortsetzung des internationalen Bestsellers "Tage der Toten" des Thriller-Autors Don Winslow, ist ein monumentales Epos über den mexikanisch-amerikanischen Drogenkrieg. Es ist das Jahr 2004: Sie waren mal beste Freunde. Aber das ist viele Jahre und unzählige Auftragsmorde her. Der Drogenfahnder Art Keller tritt nun an, um Adán Barrera, dem mächtigen Drogenboss in Mexiko, für immer das Handwerk zu legen. Er begibt sich auf eine atemlose Jagd und in einen entfesselten Krieg zwischen CIA, DEA und Narcos, in dem die Grenzen zwischen Gut und Böse schon längst verschwunden sind. Eine wahrhaft erschütternde, genau recherchierte Geschichte über die mexikanisch-amerikanischen Drogenkriege, über Gier und Korruption, Rache und Gerechtigkeit, Heldenmut und Hinterhältigkeit. "Der beste Roman von Don Winslow. Hochspannend, brutal, ungeheuer atmosphärisch, bis ins letzte Detail durchgeplant." James Ellroy