The Force

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The acclaimed, award winning, bestselling author of The Cartel voted one of the Best Books of the Year by 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 carte blanche to fight 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.This is the great cop novel of our time and a book only Don Winslow could write a haunting 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 on the edge and of a courageous, heroic, and deeply flawed man who stands at the edge of its abyss, The Force is a masterpiece of urban realism 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 us today. Read The Force Author Don Winslow – kino-fada.fr he started out with his eyes firmly on the guiding star, his feet planted on the path, but that s the thing about the life you walk you start out pointed true North, but you vary one degree off, it doesn t matter for maybe one year, five years, but as the years stack up you re just walking farther and farther away from where you started out to go, you don t even know you re lost until you re so far from your original destination you can t even see it any Don Winslow Uneasy lies the head he started out with his eyes firmly on the guiding star, his feet planted on the path, but that s the thing about the life you walk you start out pointed true North, but you vary one degree off, it doesn t matter for maybe one year, five years, but as the years stack up you re just walking farther and farther away from where y...I have been a fan of Don Winslow s forthan 20 years, starting when I found his series featuring Neal Carey, one of theunlikely private investigators I had seen back then This was a time when there wasn t such a glut of books featuring unlikely PIs Through the years I ve read pretty much everything he has written, and I kept hoping there would be a book that would finally catapult him to the level of fame his talent so deserves.Simply put, his latest book, The Force , is nothing I have been a fan of Don Winslow s forthan 20 years, starting when I found his series fe...The mean streets of New York, Denny Malone, leader of a special unit of cops, respected and feared, the city is his territory and his group know as Da Force He is telling his story from a cell, but how did this king of the streets, at the top of his game, descend so low When I first started reading this I thought or I hoped this wouldn t be a cliched viewpoint of every had cop story we hear about The writing ...You tell me Who are the bad guys, who are the good Denny Malone, NYPD Detective Sergeant, head of The Manhattan North Special Task Force all he ever wanted was to be a good cop.Have you ever dug a hole That s the only way I can describe The Force You dig The hole gets bigger The bigger the hole gets it s hard to keep the dirt from seeping back in If you re not careful you ll find yourself becoming part of that fill.June 20, 2017 Let the countdown begin The Force by Don Winslow8,899,200 You tell me Who are the bad guys, who are the good Denny Malone, NYPD Detective Sergeant, head of The Manhattan North Special Task Force all he ever wanted was to be a good cop.Have you ever dug a hole That s the only way...Why bother calling 9 1 1 to report a crime when the cops are the biggest criminals on the streets and everyone knows it Denny Malone isn t just your average police detective He s also one of the best cops the NYPD has who runs an elite unit nicknamed Da Force that takes on the worst cases involving gang and drug crimes, and he rules his Manhattan North turf along with the partners he loves like brothers The thing is that Malone is also as crooked as a dog s back leg because he beats suspects, Why bother calling 9 1 1 to report a crime when the cops are the biggest criminals on the streets and everyone knows it Denny Malone isn t just your average police detective He s also one of the best cops the NYPD has who runs an elite unit nicknamed Da Force that takes on the worst cases involving gang and drug crimes, and he rules his Manhattan North turf along with the partners he loves like brothers The thing is that Malone is also as crooked as a dog s back leg because he beats suspects, rips off drug dealers, routinely perjures himself, and takes kickbacks from defense attorneys for referrals He also has a steady side gig as a bag man running cash between the mob and city officials as well as cutting deals with judges and prosecutors to throw out cases However, Malone finds himself jammed up by the Feds and is soon wrap...This is another brilliant novel from Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog and The Winter of Frankie Machine At the heart of the story is Detective Sergeant Denny Malone of the N.Y.P.D, a deeply flawed character in a corrupt and brutally flawed system.Malone runs a small elite task force charged with chasing down drug dealers, gun runners, gang members and other such scum He thinks of himself as the King of Manhattan North, and to Malone s way of thinking, the ends almost always justif This is another brilliant novel from Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog and The Winter of Frankie Machine At the heart of the story is Det...I read this book in three days, and at just shy of 500 pages, that tells you how gripping it was Winslow is a really talented writer, who weaves together a clever, intriguing plot with a strange but successful blend of machismo, humanity and shocking reality His language is almost musical in its rhythm, which makes this book and his others stand out from most thrillers I have s...The Fire THIS time This would have probaly just been another very good cop thriller without Don Winslow s race nuance sometimes clunky, sometimes heavy handed and the novel s final act Overall, The Force is not as good as his Cartel series The Power of the Dog, The Cartel , but in my opinion better than Savages Winslow doesn t pull many punches when dealing with drug dealers, dirty cops, dirty politicos, etc He really does deserve some major props from jumping right into the Black LiveThe Fire THIS time This would have probaly just been another very good cop thriller without Don Winslow s race nuance sometimes clunky, sometimes heavy handed and the novel s final act Overall, The Force is not as good as his Cartel series The Power of the Dog, The Cartel , but in my opinion better than Savages Winslow doesn t pull many punches when dealing with drug dealers, dirty cops, dirty politicos, etc He really does deserve some major props from jumping right into the Black Lives Matter, Blue on Black dynamics The novel s characters are arranged in such a way that the issues of Ferguson, NYC, Balti, LA, etc., are inescapable from the novel s narrative You can t really tell a story about NYC cops and corruption and NOT step into issues of race Winslow d...Dirty Cops Instant Classic of Shakespearean ProportionsRevised Complete Review 8 6 17He who fights monsters, Nietzsche warned, should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster As the novel opens, NYPD Detective Sergeant Denny Malone is being held in a federal lockup, accused of being a dirty cop into whom the abyss now gazes.Malone is the de facto leader of NYPD s most elite crime fighting unit, the Manhattan North Special Task Force, whose mission is to rid Washington H Dirty Cops Instant Classic of Shakespearean Proport... , , ,, , , ,, , ,, , , , , The Force , ,, , , , , , , , ,,, The Wire Serpico,

The Force
  • English
  • 04 July 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 496 pages
  • 0062664417
  • Don Winslow
  • The Force