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"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.
