Don Winslow

*A Times thriller of the year*Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow’s epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career.'A gangland trilogy to equal THE GODFATHER. If you like SCARFACE and GOODFELLAS, this is where it's at.' STEPHEN KINGSometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman – a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own. Danny thought he had buried his past, but now it reaches up to him from the grave to pull him down. Old enemies surface, and when they come for Danny they vow to take everything – not only his empire, not just his life, but all that he holds dear, including his son. To save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was – and never wanted to be again. Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.

*A Times thriller of the year*Following Cityon Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career.

Instant New York Times Bestseller"The Godfather for our generation." -- Adrian McKinty"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow has saved the best for last." -- James PattersonFrom New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow comes City in Ruins - his epic, genre-defining crime masterpiece . . . and the final novel of Winslow's extraordinary career. Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own. Danny thought he had buried his past, but now it reaches up to him from the grave to pull him down. Old enemies surface, and when they come for Danny they vow to take everything - not only his empire, not just his life, but all that he holds dear, including his son. To save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was - and never wanted to be again. Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.

Instant New York Times Bestseller"The Godfather for our generation." -- Adrian McKinty"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow has saved the best for last." -- James PattersonFrom New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow comes City in Ruins - his epic, genre-defining crime masterpiece . . . and the final novel of Winslow's extraordinary career. Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman - a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own. Danny thought he had buried his past, but now it reaches up to him from the grave to pull him down. Old enemies surface, and when they come for Danny they vow to take everything - not only his empire, not just his life, but all that he holds dear, including his son. To save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was - and never wanted to be again. Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the authorShamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail waitress, and a chronic disappearing act. When Neal catches up with him, he can see why Natty doesn't want to go home. Sole witness to a crime, he's now the quarry of hard-faced suits, a fascist con artist, and a career-track assassin. And bodyguard Neal, scorching through the trackless desert at eighty miles per hour, brooding on his inner child by freezing starlight, and looking down the barrel of one gun too many, is soon dodging vultures and on the brink of a surprise watery grave.

Hollywood – där drömmen blir sann ... Danny Ryan befinner sig på flykt efter en blodig förlust. Maffian, polisen, FBI – alla vill se honom, om inte död, så i alla fall fängslad. Med sin son, åldrande far och det som återstår av hans lojala gäng migrerar Danny till Kalifornien för att börja om på nytt. En lugn och rofylld tillvaro är det han eftersträvar. Men polisen hittar honom och ber Danny om en tjänst som antingen gör honom rik ... eller får honom dödad. När ett produktionsbolag sedan vill göra en dokumentär om hans tidigare liv ser Danny en möjlighet att ekonomiskt bygga upp sitt kriminella imperium igen. Allt ser ut att gå Dannys väg tills han möter en vacker filmstjärna och blir kär. Hon verkar dock dölja ett mörkt förflutet och deras kärlek blir förödande för dem båda. Danny måste nu kämpa för sina drömmar annars kommer allt att rasera ... En svepande familjesaga där kärlek, hämnd, överlevnad och en skrämmande verklighet gömmer sig bakom drömmen om det perfekta livet.“Superb!” Stephen King“Don Winslow är en av vår tids mest kraftfulla författare.” Jens LapidusOm Stad i brand:”En glödhet, ursinnig roman med stor skärpa …” Kirkus”Inget mindre än genialisk! … Jag kan knappt vänta på nästa del i serien.” Jeffery Deaver”Detta är Winslow när han är som allra bäst.” Karin SlaughterDon Winslow (f. 1953) (f. 1953) har skrivit mer än 20 hyllade, prisbelönta och bästsäljande böcker, bland annat Styrkan och Muren, flera av hans böcker har blivit filmatiserade av den Oscarsbelönade Oliver Stone. Don Winslow har tidigare jobbat som privatutredare, antiterrorutbildare och rättegångskonsult, och bor i dag i Kalifornien och Rhode Island med sin fru.

30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the authorRobert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula. Not surprisingly, the Bank, his notoriously exclusive backer, wants to keep an eye on its investment. But so does the CIA. And the Chinese government. And a few shadier organizations. So when Pendleton disappears from a conference in San Francisco, along with all of his research, Neal Carey enters the picture. Neal knows the Bank is calling in its chips in return for paying his grad school bills. He thinks this assignment will be a no-brainer until he meets the beguiling Li Lan and touches off a deadly game of hide-and-seek that will lead him from San Francisco's Chinatown to the lawless back streets of Hong Kong, and finally into the dark heart of China. In a world where no one is what they seem, Neal must unravel the mystery of a beautiful woman and reach the fabled Buddha's Mirror, a mist-shrouded lake where all secrets are revealed.

Tras Ciudad en llamas, la exitosa novela que alcanz instant neamente la lista de los m s vendidos del New York Times y que Adrian McKinty calific como El Padrino de nuestra generaci n , llega la segunda entrega de la pica trilog a El c rtel de Don Winslow. Danny Ryan se ha dado a la fuga tras perder una guerra sangrienta que enfrent a bandas criminales de la Costa Este. La mafia, la polic a y el FBI lo quieren muerto o en prisi n. Acompa ado por su hijo peque o, su anciano padre y los maltrechos restos de su facci n de soldados leales, Danny se marcha a California dispuesto a comenzar una nueva vida. Sin embargo, los federales dan con su rastro y le piden un favor que podr a hacerle ganar una fortuna o costarle la vida. Y cuando en Hollywood empieza a rodarse una pel cula basada en su pasado, Danny exige una parte de los beneficios y comienza a reconstruir su imperio delictivo. Entonces se enamora de una atractiva estrella de cine que tambi n arrastra un pasado turbio. El choque de sus mundos provoca un estallido que podr a acabar con ambos, y Danny se ve obligado a luchar por sobrevivir en la ciudad donde nacen los sue os. O donde van a morir. Desde la costa de Rhode Island hasta el desierto de California, donde se hacen desaparecer los cad veres; desde los pasillos del poder de Washington, donde se gesta la verdadera corrupci n, hasta los legendarios estudios de Hollywood, donde se forjan aut nticas fortunas, Ciudad de los sue os es una epopeya arrolladora sobre la familia, el amor, la venganza, la supervivencia y la brutal realidad que se esconde tras los sue os. -----Following City on Fire, the epic novel that instantly hit the New York Times bestseller list and was called "The Godfather of our generation" by Adrian McKinty, comes the second novel in El cartel, Don Winslow's epic trilogy. Danny Ryan is on the run after losing a bloody war pitting East Coast criminal gangs against each other. The mob, police and FBI want him dead or in prison. Accompanied by his young son, his old father and the battered remnants of his faction of loyal soldiers, Danny sets out for California ready to start a new life. However, the feds pick up his trail and ask him for a favor that could earn him a fortune or cost him his life. And when Hollywood starts shooting a movie based on his past, Danny demands a share of the profits and begins to rebuild his criminal empire. Then he falls in love with a beautiful movie star who also has a dark past of her own. As their worlds collide in an explosion that could destroy them both, Danny is forced to fight for survival in the city where dreams are born. Or where they go to die. From the shores of Rhode Island to the deserts of California where bodies disappear, from the power corridors of Washington where the real criminals operate to the fabled movie studios of Hollywood where the real money is made, City of Dreams is a sweeping saga of family, love, revenge, survival and the fierce reality behind the dream.

Två kriminella imperier har tillsammans makten över New Englands undre värld - irländska Murphys och italienska Morettis. Tills en nutida Sköna Helena dyker upp och hamnar mitt emellan dem. Kriget som bryter ut kommer att kräva liv, krossa allianser och sätta staden i brand.. Danny Ryan drömmer om ett ”vanligt”, hederligt liv, och när den uppblossande konflikten blir allt blodigare inser han att han måste göra något för att skydda sina vänner och sin familj. Han måste kliva fram och bli en ledare, en hänsynslös strateg, och göra allt för att ta kontrollen över detta spel på liv och död. Han måste bygga upp en ny dynasti som sträcker sig ända från Providences dammiga gator till Hollywoods glitter och Las Vegas gyllene kasinon. Stad i brand är första delen i en trilogi där Don Winslow återvänder till den plats där han växte upp - en modern Iliaden, en släktslaga som spänner över flera generationer, med klassiska teman som ära, svek och lojalitet.“Winslow handskas så effektivt och övertygande med sitt material att det här blir en berättelse som verkligen sticker ut. Språket är storslaget sparsmakat, allt flyter på, utan att för den skull tappa i djup. Inga falska toner eller trötta schabloner anas i de psykologiska gestaltningarna. Spänningen lurar hela tiden under ytan. Det är filmiskt gjort, ja nog borde det kunna göras en ny typ av Gudfadern av denna bok.” Kenneth Carlsson, BTJ-häftet“En glödhet, svidande roman full av ilska.” Kirkus Review"En av de främsta amerikanska berättarna." Stephen King"USA:s största nu levande krimförfattare." Providence Journal"Det här är Winslow när han är som bäst." Karin SlaughterDon Winslow har skrivit 21 hyllade, prisbelönta och bästsäljande böcker, bland annat Styrkan och Muren, men också kultförklarade The cartel, The power of the dog, Savages och The winter of Frankie Machine. Savages har filmatiserats av den Oscarbelönade manusförfattaren och regissören Oliver Stone, och rättigheterna till Muren, The cartel och The power of the dog har sålts till tv-bolaget FX för ett mångmiljonbelopp. Även Styrkan är snart aktuell som spelfilm. Don Winslow har tidigare jobbat som privatutredare, antiterrorutbildare och rättegångskonsult, och bor i dag i Kalifornien och Rhode Island.

Hot on the heels of the ââ?¬Å?superbââ?¬Â (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow.

Hot on the heels of the "superb" (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow.