{"product_id":"the-force-a-novel-isbn-9780062664440","title":"The Force: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInstant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR, Barnes \u0026amp; Noble, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher's Weekly, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLitHub, BookPage, Booklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheRealBookSpy.com, the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e(UK) and the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e(UK) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Force\u003c\/i\u003e is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think \u003ci\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e, only with cops. It’s that good.”\u003cbr\u003e   — \u003cb\u003eStephen King\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e—voted one of the Best Books of the Year by more than sixty publications, including the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e—returns with a cinematic crime thriller as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as \u003ci\u003eMystic River\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wire.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat only a few know is that Denny Malone is a dirty cop: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on years of research inside the NYPD, this sprawling police procedural 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Force\u003c\/i\u003e 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 police corruption, modern American society and the controversial issues confronting and dividing us today.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eAll Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. He’s 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 and the baddest. What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now Malone is 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, and trying to survive while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of greed and violence, retribution and redemption, that reveals the tensions between the police and the citizens they serve. A portrait of a courageous, heroic and deeply flawed man, it is a masterpiece of urban realism and the great cop novel of our time that only Don Winslow could write.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Don Winslow:\u003c\/strong\u003e “Winslow’s drug war version of \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/em\u003e...a big, sprawling, ultimately stunning crime tableau. . . . A magnum opus. . . . Don Winslow is to the Mexican drug wars what James Ellroy is to L.A. Noir.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanet Maslin, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winslow’s drug war version of \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/em\u003e...a big, sprawling, ultimately stunning crime tableau...A magnum opus...Don Winslow is to the Mexican drug wars what James Ellroy is to L.A. Noir.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanet Maslin, New York Times on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the best thriller writers on the planet.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenjamin Percy, Esquire on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A \u003cem\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/em\u003e of the Mexican drug wars, a multipart, intricately plotted, blood-soaked epic that tells the story of how America’s unquenchable appetite for illegal drugs has brought chaos to our southern neighbors and darkened our own political and criminal culture.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWill Dana, Rolling Stone on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Clearly one of the most ambitious and most accomplished crime novels to appear in the last 15 years, \u003cem\u003eTHE CARTEL\u003c\/em\u003e will likely retain that distinction even as the twenty-first century grinds on.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBill Ott, Booklist on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Part \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/em\u003e, part \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is a Molotov cocktail of cops and corruption, where good guys are also bad guys, and police malfeasance isn’t just about skimming money off drug busts—it’s about ... the corruption that comes when trying to do the right thing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbigail Jones, Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s one of the most daring and explosive books of summer, grabbing readers by the front of the shirt and dragging them into a world where honor and wrongdoing are mismatched partners… (It has) a sardonic, streetwise voice — like a pissed off conscience, telling a cautionary tale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthony Breznican, Entertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A compelling, profane, powerful saga… I can’t wait for the movie. It’s got Scorsese written all over it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Littlejohn, Daily Mail (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A superlative cop thriller....\u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e can be seen as a meticulously researched nonfiction book in fictional disguise: every scene adds another detail to its panoramic picture of a criminal justice system permeated by corruption, cronyism and lies.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Dugdale, Sunday Times (London)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don Winslow’s summer blockbuster, \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e, is ready-made for Hollywood… A big, fat book of fast-moving fiction… Riveting and scary — in a lot of ways.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeely Tucker, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A mashup of a hundred-dirty cop movies and true-crime exposes, reimagined and repurposed into one indelible storyline. Winslow takes these well-worn themes, bends them to his considerable will and comes up with something fresh… Heartbreakingly beautiful and unforgiving.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Anglen, Arizona Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The author brings an intoxicating combination of passion, authenticity and grandeur to the crime thriller, expanding the very limits of the form… Riveting, infuriating, and ultimately deeply moving.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBilge Ebiri, Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shattering New … Boisterous, (and) profane.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanet Maslin, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “(A) shattering New York cop epic… The pace is kept up by the Winslow way with words, which almost entirely defies being quoted here, either because of the slang (Elmore Leonard league) or because of the everyday obscenities that lace every funny line.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanet Maslin, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Magnificent… muscular and lyrical, free-flowing and complex, it delivers punch-in-the-guts plot twists.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarcel Berlines, The Times (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Sprawling and visceral.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“If you read only one crime novel this summer, it is going to have to be “The Force” by award-winning veteran writer Don Winslow.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eC.F. Foster, Florida Times-Union\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is intoxicating....Winslow keeps the surprises coming and the narrative churning.... A literary coup de force.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Mayer, Mountain Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The plot... shines with looks deep inside New York City, inside racial strains, inside institutional turf wars - and inside a cop’s conscience.... The best damned crime book so far this year.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarry Levins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winslow spent years researching this novel, and it shows....A superb crime novel.... Exciting, entertaining and enlightening.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Davis, Washington Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The immersion into the world of the NYPD is so brutal and honest that it’s difficult to imagine that Winslow was never a policeman.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeff Ayers, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “So smoking hot that this reviewer kept imagining that the pages were blistering and that there was steam rising up from the cover… If you read just one book this summer, make it \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVick Mickunas, Dayton Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Just \u003cem\u003efantastic\u003c\/em\u003e. Like can’t-put-it-down, can’t-get-the-voices-out-of-your-head fantastic. An instant classic, an epic, a goddamn Wagner opera… basically \u003cem\u003eGame of Thrones\u003c\/em\u003e without the dragons. The Wars of the Roses played out with New York City cops and robbers.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJason Sheehan, NPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Winslow’s] prose moves with the power of a locomotive and the precision of a Porsche, making hairpin turns designed to keep adrenaline junkies turning the pages.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Vognar, Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Breathtaking... Packed with detail and told with majestic prose... This is without question among the finest ever police novels.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The pressure on Malone becomes so intense it makes Henry Hill’s paranoia in “Good Fellas” look like a mild case of OCD… What makes \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e unique among police procedurals is that it’s not the story of a rogue cop with a code… but a sneakily subversive post-Ferguson thriller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Ruland, Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don Winslow’s intoxicating new crime thriller, \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is a riveting ride-along with the Manhattan North Special Task Force, an elite NYPD unit… As in \u003cem\u003eThe Cartel\u003c\/em\u003e, a poignant non-fiction baseline threads through this novel, leaving readers to wonder how much of it is tragically true.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon Oldenburg, USA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A page-turner that also manages to dive into deeper issues… Yet what truly sets Winslow apart, aside from his gut-punch prose and deep understanding of the criminal worlds he inhabits, is his ability to perceive the greater truth behind the guns and drugs and death.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStayton Bonner, Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A brilliant novel, rich in language, conflict, setting, and character. It resonates deeply with realism, honesty, and sheer magnetism. Fans of “The Godfather,” “Mystic River,” “The Wire,” and “The Departed” will absolutely love this book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Rubinstein, Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A piercing, profane, morally complex epic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don Winslow’s New York copy novel \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is a scorcher, and if his sources are on the level it’s time for another Knapp Commission.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nobody understands the disaster of corruption better than Don Winslow. \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the dawning horror of how it eats into the best intentions.”    - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVal McDermid, #1 Bestselling Author of Out of Bounds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don Winslow’s The Force is the best book of 2017 so far, period. Did you ever read a book you had a sense was going to become a classic? That’s what Don Winslow’s had me thinking well before I flipped the last page.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJon Land, Providence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winslow brings incisively-researched details, gut-wrenching plotlines, and infinite heart to his all-too-real, highly compassionate tale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaneet Steffens, Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Caught between the desperation of the poor and the cynicism of the rich the lead character of Don Winslow’s The Force embodies the searing conflicts that define 21st century New York. The boom shrewdly suggest damnation can be a form of salvation for a man and even a city.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNelson George\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“There won’t be a better cop novel this year than The Force by Don Winslow. Not next year, or the year after that, either.”    - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLinwood Barclay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Supercop and Everycop, Malone symbolizes the conflicts that corrode — and, Mr. Winslow suggests, often define — today’s policing. This book is about the intersection of greed and need… \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is gripping… magisterial and raw.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarlo Wolff, Pittsburg Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Once every few years, a book comes along that stands head and shoulders above its genre. Dennis Lehane’s \u003cem\u003eMystic River\u003c\/em\u003e was one; Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy... was another. Don Winslow’s \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e... is such a book.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruce Tierney, BookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“It’s rare for a writer to produce two career-defining masterpieces back-to-back, but that’s exactly what Winslow has done.… Winslow has created what will likely become our quintessential cop novel, looking both at what cops do right and wrong with clear-eyed realism and passionate humanity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A gut punch of a new cop thriller. . . . Once the author, a former investigator, starts tightening the screws of this by stunning drama, it has you unrelentingly in its grip.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLloyd Sachs, Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Shocking authenticity is the lifeblood of Don Winslow’s \u003cem\u003eThe Force.  \u003c\/em\u003eI stopped everything I was doing to read it straight through. Detective Sergeant Denny Malone takes us on a searing journey through the corruption that lies at the heart of our justice system. I wish I’d written it!” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreg Iles, author of Mississippi Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don Winslow’s novel \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e isn’t just one of the great New York City cop novels ever written. It is one of the great New York City novels ever written.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMike Lupica, New York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A scorcher.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Incendiary…. Winslow is a master at exposing how corruption and bureaucracy strangle well-intentioned law enforcement, and he doesn’t shy away from issues of race, culture, poverty and the dark economics on which a city thrives.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eConnie Ogle, Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nobody exposes the underbelly of American society like Don Winslow – a modern master who holds up a mirror to New York policing, showing the bravery, loyalty, honour and corruption.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Robotham, Bestselling Author of Life or Death\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Secures Winslow’s place beside the likes of Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, Daniel Woodrell, George Pelecanos, Thomas H. Cook, and James Ellroy – writers who have turned the American crime novel into major works of literature.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruce DeSilva’s Rogue Island on The Force\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“The Force\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Seventies-style Sydney-Lumet-directed cop story, dropped into the streets of today, that prove not to be that different, and given an epic sweep.”   - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMysteryPeople Pick of the Month\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Intensely human in its tragic details, positively Shakespearean in its epic sweep\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003eprobably the best cop novel ever written.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winslow peers into the soul of modern America through the eyes of a supremely skilled and corrupt police officer, in this epic novel of devastating moral complexity.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Shield\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003eThe Departed\u003c\/em\u003e in Don Winslow’s \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the best cop dramas ever written, and the first novel we’ve ever scored a perfect 10\/10 on our rating scale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRyan Steck, TheRealBookSpy.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winslow’s writing, with its torrents of profane, single-sentence paragraphs, is as potent as ever.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Pucci, Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mesmerizing, a triumph. Think \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/em\u003e, only with cops. It’s that good.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riding high on the acclaim from his 2015 novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Cartel\u003c\/em\u003e ... Winslow turns to the streets of New York in this dark novel about an NYPD special task force led by Denny Malone, whose brother died as a first responder on 9\/11.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Beer, Newsday best summer books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Sensationally good, even after the near-perfection of \u003cem\u003eThe Power of the Dog\u003c\/em\u003e. Less of a sequel than an integral part of a solid-gold whole.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee Child on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winslow is the most fearless chronicler of the chaos and violence along the U.S.-Mexico border...who has written what could be the \u003cem\u003eWar and Peace\u003c\/em\u003e of the War on Drugs.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eErik Hedegaard, Men's Journal on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eTHE CARTEL\u003c\/em\u003e is a gut-punch of a novel. Big, ambitious, violent and widely entertaining, Don Winslow’s latest is an absolute must-read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarlan Coben on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Winslow has delivered two of the most emotionally resonant novels in the past decade, \u003cem\u003eThe Power of the Dog\u003c\/em\u003e and its epic conclusion, \u003cem\u003eTHE CARTEL\u003c\/em\u003e...his rapid-fire story hits you like bullets from an AK-47.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvy Pochoda, Los Angeles Times on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“High-octane...The righteous indignation that fuels Winslow’s tale of cops, cartels, and the near-apocalyptic havoc they can create is addictive.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClark Collis, Entertainment Weekly on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hugely hypnotic new thriller...the pace and feel of an exploded documentary...a brilliant and informative work of fiction about a nightmare world that flourishes in the bright light of day.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Cheuse, NPR Books on The Cartel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Don Winslow is one of the most durable and important voices in American crime fiction. 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