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. 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.Įvery 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. Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true.Īll Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. Whether he pulls it off, whether he can keep the kid and the girl and his life, makes this compelling novel a hilarious, fast-paced thriller about a con caught in a devil’s bargain.

To his surprise he meets Bobby Z's old flame, Elizabeth, and her son.Īt first, it’s a short vacation by the pool, but when things turn bloody, the three of them begin the most desperate flight of their lives, with drug lords, bikers, Indians, and cops furiously chasing after them. Knowing his chances of survival are a little better than in prison, Kearney accepts, and he winds up in the middle of a desert at the notorious drug lord’s lavish compound. That’s until the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him for one of their own, who was captured by a Mexican drug kingpin. When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he’s pretty much a dead man.

Winslow currently lives in his beloved California with his wife of several decades. His novels that have been adapted into motion pictures include Savages (2010), and The Death and Life of Bobby Z (1997), with several more either in development or in production. Some of his accolades include the Raymond Chandler Award (Italy), the LA Times Book Prize, the Ian Fleming Silver Dagger (UK), The RBA Literary Prize (Spain), among others.

Winslow worked as a private investigator for a while until a film and publishing deal for his novel The Death and Life of Bobby Z (1997), enabled him to become a full-time writer. He also traveled to California, Idaho and Montana before moving to New York City to become a writer. While in college, Winslow traveled to southern Africa, something that sparked his love for the continent. Raised in a tiny town in Rhode Island, he attended the University of Nebraska where he earned a degree in African Studies.

Don Winslow is an American award-winning, New York Times and International bestselling author of mystery and thriller books.

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