
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 & unforgettable as The Wire Everyone can be bought At the right price Detective sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gangs drugs & 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 & corruption where no one is clean What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is dirty he & his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs & cash Now he's caught in a trap & being squeezed by the Feds & 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 & violence inequality & race & a searing portrait of a city on the edge of an abyss Full of shocking twists this is a morally complex & riveting dissection of the controversial issues confronting society today