Don Winslow is the author of twenty-two acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including the New York Times bestsellers The Force and The Border, the #1 international bestseller The Cartel, The Power of the Dog, Savages, and The Winter of Frankie Machine. Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone. The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border sold to FX to air as a major television series, and The Force is soon to be a major motion picture from 20th Century Studios. A former investigator, antiterrorist trainer, and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.
"The Force 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." --MysteryPeople Pick of the
Month
Praise for Don Winslow: "Winslow's drug war version of The
Godfather...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."--Janet Maslin, New York
Times
"The Force is intoxicating....Winslow keeps the surprises coming
and the narrative churning.... A literary coup de force."--Tom
Mayer, Mountain Times
"The Power of the Dog and THE CARTEL, by Don Winslow: I'm totally
swept up. You can't ask more for emotionally moving
entertainment."--Stephen King on The Cartel
"The Shield meets The Departed in Don Winslow's The Force, one of
the best cop dramas ever written, and the first novel we've ever
scored a perfect 10/10 on our rating scale."--Ryan Steck,
TheRealBookSpy.com
"THE CARTEL is a gut-punch of a novel. Big, ambitious, violent and
widely entertaining, Don Winslow's latest is an absolute
must-read."--Harlan Coben on The Cartel
"(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."--Janet Maslin, New York Times
"[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."--Chris Vognar, Dallas
Morning News
"A Game of Thrones 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."--Will Dana, Rolling Stone on The Cartel
"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."--Mark Rubinstein,
Huffington Post
"A compelling, profane, powerful saga... I can't wait for the
movie. It's got Scorsese written all over it."--Richard Littlejohn,
Daily Mail (UK)
"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."--Lloyd Sachs, Chicago
Tribune
"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."--Robert Anglen, Arizona Republic
"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."--Stayton Bonner, Rolling Stone
"A piercing, profane, morally complex epic."--John Wilkens, San
Diego Union-Tribune
"A scorcher."--New York Times Book Review
"A superlative cop thriller....The Force 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."--John Dugdale, Sunday Times (London)
"Breathtaking... Packed with detail and told with majestic prose...
This is without question among the finest ever police
novels."--Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail (UK)
"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."--Nelson George
"Clearly one of the most ambitious and most accomplished crime
novels to appear in the last 15 years, THE CARTEL will likely
retain that distinction even as the twenty-first century grinds
on."--Bill Ott, Booklist on The Cartel
"Don Winslow delivers his longest and finest novel yet in THE
CARTEL. This is the War and Peace of dopewar books. Tense, brutal,
wildly atmospheric, stunningly plotted, deeply etched."--James
Ellroy on The Cartel
"Don Winslow is one of the most durable and important voices in
American crime fiction. His examinations of character and
corruption turn the narco wars into a relentless, bloody
opera."--Nic Pizzolatto, Creator, Writer and Executive Producer of
HBO's True Detective on The Cartel
"Don Winslow's THE CARTEL is the most important crime saga of the
millennium...This is reporting and expose built around an intricate
plot, finely etched characters and whip-crack dialogue.
Storytelling that matters."--Robert Anglen, Arizona Republic on The
Cartel
"Don Winslow's intoxicating new crime thriller, The Force is a
riveting ride-along with the Manhattan North Special Task Force, an
elite NYPD unit... As in The Cartel, a poignant non-fiction
baseline threads through this novel, leaving readers to wonder how
much of it is tragically true."--Don Oldenburg, USA Today
"Don Winslow's novel The Force 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."--Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
"Don Winslow's summer blockbuster, The Force, is ready-made for
Hollywood... A big, fat book of fast-moving fiction... Riveting and
scary -- in a lot of ways."--Neely Tucker, Washington Post
"Don Winslow's New York copy novel The Force is a scorcher, and if
his sources are on the level it's time for another Knapp
Commission."--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
"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."--Jon Land, Providence Journal
"High-octane...The righteous indignation that fuels Winslow's tale
of cops, cartels, and the near-apocalyptic havoc they can create is
addictive."--Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly on The Cartel
"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."--Alan
Cheuse, NPR Books on The Cartel
"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."--C.F. Foster, Florida Times-Union
"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."--Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
"Intensely human in its tragic details, positively Shakespearean in
its epic sweep--probably the best cop novel ever written."--Lee
Child
"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."--Anthony Breznican, Entertainment
Weekly
"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."--Booklist (starred review)
"Just fantastic. 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 Game of
Thrones without the dragons. The Wars of the Roses played out with
New York City cops and robbers."--Jason Sheehan, NPR
"Magnificent... muscular and lyrical, free-flowing and complex, it
delivers punch-in-the-guts plot twists."--Marcel Berlines, The
Times (UK)
"Mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather, only with cops. It's
that good."--Stephen King
"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."--Michael
Robotham, Bestselling Author of Life or Death
"Nobody understands the disaster of corruption better than Don
Winslow. The Force exposes the dawning horror of how it eats into
the best intentions." --Val McDermid, #1 Bestselling Author of Out
of Bounds
"Once every few years, a book comes along that stands head and
shoulders above its genre. Dennis Lehane's Mystic River was one;
Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy... was another. Don Winslow's
The Force... is such a book."--Bruce Tierney, BookPage
"Part The Godfather, part The Wire, The Force 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."--Abigail Jones, Newsweek
"Riding high on the acclaim from his 2015 novel, The Cartel ...
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."--Tom Beer, Newsday best summer
books
"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."--Bruce DeSilva's Rogue Island on
The Force
"Sensationally good, even after the near-perfection of The Power of
the Dog. Less of a sequel than an integral part of a solid-gold
whole."--Lee Child on The Cartel
"Shocking authenticity is the lifeblood of Don Winslow's The Force.
I 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!"--Greg Iles, author of Mississippi
Blood
"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 The
Force."--Vick Mickunas, Dayton Daily News
"Sprawling and visceral."--Financial Times (UK)
"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...
The Force is gripping... magisterial and raw."--Carlo Wolff,
Pittsburg Post-Gazette
"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."--Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice
"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."--Jeff Ayers, Washington Post
"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."--Harry
Levins, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"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 The Force 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."--Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times
"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." --Linwood
Barclay
"Winslow brings incisively-researched details, gut-wrenching
plotlines, and infinite heart to his all-too-real, highly
compassionate tale."--Daneet Steffens, Boston Globe
"Winslow has delivered two of the most emotionally resonant novels
in the past decade, The Power of the Dog and its epic conclusion,
THE CARTEL...his rapid-fire story hits you like bullets from an
AK-47."--Ivy Pochoda, Los Angeles Times on The Cartel
"Winslow is the most fearless chronicler of the chaos and violence
along the U.S.-Mexico border...who has written what could be the
War and Peace of the War on Drugs."--Erik Hedegaard, Men's Journal
on The Cartel
"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."--Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
"Winslow spent years researching this novel, and it shows....A
superb crime novel.... Exciting, entertaining and
enlightening."--Paul Davis, Washington Times
"Winslow's drug war version of The Godfather...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."--Janet
Maslin, New York Times on The Cartel
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