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. 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. 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 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. Īll Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true. 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.

Best of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, , the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK)

The Force by Don Winslow