Instant New York Times BestsellerBest 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 KingThe acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of … 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—makes his William Morrow debut 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.
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A tense, rough edged police procedural.
Don Winslow is one of the most versatile popular writers around. His stories and characters sweep you up and take you on a grand adventure.
A long, tedious, and unforgivably boring rumination by a sociopathic policeman.
Fun but ultimately tragic read
Read like you were watching a movie!!
Seems predictable
I liked it . But not up there with Power of the Dog, Cartel or Savages.
Terrible book. I have read other books by author that I liked,but this book was not very good
A realistic chronicle of a big city detective’s career slide from optimistic rookie to
his career induced death as a crooked kingpin. Even at the end, though, he main-
tains a sense of what he’s supposed to do and to whom he owes his highest duty.
Written from the inside of the main character, the pain of a twisted life is portrayed
in action scenes that are both gripping and painful to read.
Realism at its best.
Loved this book!
I think this is one of his best, but it is dark, just so you know.
A surprisingly good read with gutty characters that tests your feelings when those dealing with drug problems and gun problems,of the city do not always allow the resolution that one would like. Dirty cops manage to keep the streets safe for the tax paying public but the politicians and media accept the abuses and cover things up for their own agenda…but are willing to crucify the heroes when it suits their purposes.
Another Don Winslow success! Excellent story, keeps one glued to the page.
Great nuanced crime drama.
The Force is a blow by blow, in your face, chronicle of day to day survival of Detective Denny Malone’s protection of his city, his guys, his world. As we watch it crumble we know we have been shown an inside clip of how our heros can fall. Written with grit and intensity. Not to be missed book.
Characters and situations were realistic and believable. Definitely not a “fairy tale” with all living happily ever after. On the dark side, but then so is life at times.
We first meet Detective First Grade Denny Malone a sergeant of the Manhattan North Special Task Force sitting in jail. Just how did an elite member of this task force also known as “DA Force” end up sitting in Metropolitan Correctional Center on the wrong side of the bars? This book is the story of Denny and those around him both wearing blue and not, but most of all it is the story of a man who is a dirty cop. You will turn the pages and think what is he thinking as he goes down yet another rabbit hole taking his friends with him. How did Denny go bad and what makes everyone look up to him as the King of the neighborhood he polices. This is more than a story of a NYPD nice guy gone bad it is a story ofvicious cycles of lies that in the end no one is a winner. The Force will have you turning each page addicted to both Denny and the city he loves.