Don Winslow

Kriminalinspektör Denny Malone leder en elitstyrka som bekämpar gäng, droger och vapen i New York. I arton år har han stått på frontlinjen och gjort allt som krävs för att överleva i en stad uppbyggd på ärelystnad och korruption. En stad där ingen är ren - inte ens Malone själv. Tillsammans med sin partner har han stulit kontanter och droger för miljontals dollar. När han fastnar i en fälla och pressas av den federala polisen tvingas Malone välja vem han ska svika: sina yrkesbröder, poliskåren, sin familj eller kvinnan han älskar - samtidigt som staden kokar av en etnisk konflikt som hotar att förgöra dem alla. Don Winslow är en av vår tids mest kraftfulla författare. Jens LapidusI Styrkan möter den febriga intensiteten från Martin Scorseses Maffiabröder den komplexa tv-serien The Wire. Markus Larsson, AftonbladetStyrkan är fascinerande, en triumf. Tänk Gudfadern med med poliser. Stephen King *** DON WINSLOW har skrivit tjugo kritikerrosade och bästsäljande romaner, och belönats med priser som Raymond Chandler Award, LA Times Book Prize och Ian Fleming Silver Dagger. Tidigare har han bland annat jobbat som journalist och privatdetektiv. Idag bor han i Kalifornien med sin fru.

Instant New York Times BestsellerBest of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, TheRealBookSpy.com, the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK) "The Force is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather, only with cops. It's that good." -- Stephen KingThe 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. Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn't true . . . All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. 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. 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. 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. 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. Based on years of research inside the NYPD, this 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, The Force 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 modern American society and the controversial issues confronting and dividing us today.

NOW A NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat - an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film. 'Michael Mann's HEAT is one of my all-time favourite movies. HEAT 2 is now one of my favourite suspense novels' JAMES PATTERSON Described by Michael Mann as both a prequel and sequel to the renowned, critically acclaimed film of the same name, HEAT 2 covers the formative years of homicide detective Vincent Hanna (Oscar winner Al Pacino) and elite criminals Neil McCauley (Oscar winner Robert De Niro), Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer), and Nate (Oscar winner Jon Voight), and features the same extraordinary ambition, scope, rich characterizations, and attention to detail as the epic film. This new story leads up to the events of the film and then moves beyond it, featuring new characters on both sides of the law, new high-line heists, and breathtakingly cinematic action sequences. Ranging from the streets of L. A. to the inner sancta of rival Taiwanese crime syndicates in Paraguay to a massive drug cartel money-laundering operation just over the border in Mexico, HEAT 2 illuminates the dangerous workings of international crime organizations and the agents who pursue them as it provides a full-blooded portrait of the men and women who inhabit both worlds. Operatic in scope, HEAT 2 is engrossing, moving, and tragic - a masterpiece of crime fiction from one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema. PRAISE FOR HEAT 2: 'A brilliant and riveting novel with rich and real characters and powerhouse storytelling...' Don Winslow 'An exciting, emotionally rich thriller, with just as much style and panache as Michael Mann's original classic heist movie' Adrian McKinty, #1 International bestselling author 'Easily one of the finest novels of the year!' Steve Cavanagh, #1 International bestselling author 'This audacious, powerhouse of a novel brings to the page everything the classic crime film HEAT brought to the screen' Eric Rickstad, New York Times bestselling author

ââ?¬Ë? Probably the best cop novel ever writtenââ?¬â?¢ Lee Child From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel ââ?¬â?? winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year ââ?¬â?? comes The Force, a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as The Wire.

Instant New York Times BestsellerBest of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, TheRealBookSpy.com, the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK) "The Force is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather, only with cops. It's that good." -- Stephen KingThe 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. Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn't true . . . All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. 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. 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. 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. 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. Based on years of research inside the NYPD, this 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, The Force 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 modern American society and the controversial issues confronting and dividing us today.

Putting Barrera away costs Keller dearly â?? the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered.

It?s 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world?s most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller?s partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly?the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to live in a world with Barrera in it, Keller goes on a ten-year odyssey to take him down. His obsession with justice?or is it revenge??becomes a ruthless struggle that stretches from the cities, mountains, and deserts of Mexico to Washington?s corridors of power to the streets of Berlin and Barcelona. Keller fights his personal battle against the devastated backdrop of Mexico?s drug war, a conflict of unprecedented scale and viciousness, as cartels vie for power and he comes to the final reckoning with Barrera?and himself?that he always knew must happen. The Cartel is a story of revenge, honor, and sacrifice, as one man tries to face down the devil without losing his soul. It is the story of the war on drugs and the men?and women?who wage it.

THE HIGH-OCTANE PREQUEL TO SAVAGESIn Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. This is the story of how Ben, Chon and O became the people they are.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers, Savages was a Top 10 Book of the Year selection by Janet Maslin in The New York Times and Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly. Now, in this high-octane prequel to Savages, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, The Kings of Cool is a breathtak-ingly original saga of family in all its forms--fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. As the trio at the center of the book does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents' history. A series of breakneck twists and turns puts the two generations on a collision course, culminating in a stunning showdown that will force Ben, Chon, and O to choose between their real families and their loyalty to one another.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Border, a "down-and-dirty dip into the treacherous social currents of Southern California" (The Wall Street Journal), in which P. I. Boone Daniels agrees to defend a young man accused of murdering a beloved surfer and local legend. Former cop turned investigator Boone Daniels lives to surf. He begins each day with the Dawn Patrol, a close-knit group of surfers who have one another's backs in and out of the water. When one of their own, a local legend, is murdered, the small world of Pacific Beach is rocked to its core. But when Boone agrees to defend the young man accused, the outrage from the community is more than he ever anticipated, and as he digs deeper into San Diego's murkier side, it becomes clear that not just a murder case is at stake. Boone soon finds himself out there alone, struggling to stay afloat as the waves get rougher and rougher . . . and more deadly.

James Ellroyn manttelinperijäksi ylistetyn Don Winslown romaani Raakalaiset kertoi parikymppisistä ystävyksistä Benistä ja Chonista sekä heidän yrityksistään pelastaa yhteinen rakastettunsa O. Uutuusromaani puolestaan paljastaa, kuinka tästä kolmikosta tuli mitä tuli ja kuinka he löysivät toisensa. Tarina alkaa 60-luvun Etelä-Kaliforniasta ja kertoo monenlaisista perheistä: biologisista perheistä, hengenheimolaisista ja bisneskumppanuksista. Kamppaillessaan huumediilerien ja kierojen poliisien kanssa nuori polvi saa huomata, että vanhempien historia sanelee myös heidän kohtaloaan. Odottamattomat tapahtumat syöksevät kaksi sukupolvea törmäyskurssille, ja lopulta Benin, Chonin ja O:n on valittava biologisten perheidensä ja toistensa väliltä. Romaanin juonenkäänteet ovat niin odottamattomia, hahmot niin yltiöcooleja, kerronta niin vimmaista ja huumori niin kuolettavaa, että lukijalta lähtee läskit silmistä.

Buddhalaisuutta ja hyväntekeväisyyttä harrastava Ben ja entinen palkkasotilas Chon pyörittävät tuottoisaa marihuanabisnestä Kaliforniassa. Poikien bisnes ei miellytä paikallista huumeparonia, ja edessä on verinen välienselvittely meksikolaisen huumekartellin kanssa. Stilettiä terävämmät juonenkäänteet, siekailemattoman moraalittomat henkilöhahmot ja adrenaliininhuuruinen kirjoitustyyli tekevät Raakalaisista äärimmäisen koukuttavaa luettavaa.

A gripping thriller that follows assassin Nicholai Hel across Asia as he fights to regain his freedom. Sugamo Prison, Japan, October 1951. Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement for the murder of his mentor. A formidable assassin as well as a master of hoda korosu or 'naked kill', he has developed a supreme awareness of the presence of danger. Suddenly offered the chance of freedom, he feels it now as never before... Overseen by Haverford, his American spymaster he must go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's commissioner to China. In a landscape primed for war this is a suicide mission he has no choice but to accept. Can Hel succeed in winning his freedom and if so, at what cost? And can he ever achieve his ultimate goal of satori - the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world?

Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. When they refuse to back down, the cartel escalates its threat, kidnapping Ophelia, the boys' playmate and confidante.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border A New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and Chicago Sun-Times Favorite Book of the Year "A revelation... This is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid on autoload." --Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly "Startling... Stylish... Mega-cool." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times Ben, Chon, and O are twentysomething best friends living the dream in Southern California. Together they have made a small fortune producing premium grade marijuana, a product so potent that the Mexican Baja Cartel demands a cut. When Ben and Chon refuse to back down, the cartel kidnaps O, igniting a dizzying array of high-octane negotiations and stunning plot twists as they risk everything to free her. The result is a provocative, sexy, and darkly engrossing thrill ride, an ultracontemporary love story that will leave you breathless.

”Herätkää! Winslow on rikoskirjallisuuden ykkösnyrkki.” – James Ellroy Nerokas ja pirullisen hauska Raakalaiset sykkii alamaailman synkkiä rytmejä. Uuden rikoskirjallisuuden kärkinimen läpimurtoteos kertoo kahden nuoren pilviparonin väkivaltaisesta välienselvittelystä meksikolaisen huumekartellin kanssa. Stilettiä terävämmät juonenkäänteet, siekailemattoman moraalittomat henkilöhahmot ja adrenaliininhuuruinen kirjoitustyyli tekevät rikostarinasta äärimmäisen koukuttavaa luettavaa. ... Etelä-Kaliforniassa asuva Don Winslow on entinen yksityisetsivä, jonka perusteellinen tuntemus rajaseudun huumekaupasta antaa tarinalle autenttista särmää. Raakalaiset on useita rikosromaaneja kirjoittaneen Winslowin läpimurtoromaani, josta Oliver Stone on parhaillaan työstämässä elokuvaa. ”Raakalaiset on Winslowin ehdottomasti hurjin, tyylikkäin, räävittömin, hätkähdyttävin ja huomiota herättävin rikosromaani. Winslow osaa ainutlaatuisella tavalla yhdistää haudanvakavuuden ja leikkisyyden, pataanvedon ja vitsailun, painajaisen ja huumehoureen.” — The New York Times

The new novel from Don Winslow, author of The Dawn Patrol Boone Daniels, a laid-back private investigator, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific beach. There’s no surf, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force regardless…it’s what they do. Having no work to do, and no real reason to go to the office, Boone stays for the second shift on the daily surfing clock – the Gentleman’s Hour; and ends up taking on a hated matrimonial case. But that soon becomes the least of his worries. When The Sundowner, a symbolic icon of the San Diego surf scene, sees a murderous dispute between a young surfer and a member of the territorial Rockpile Crew, the painful truth that violence is seeping into the surf community can no longer be ignored. So when asked to help on the defence by current love interest Petra Hall, Boone knows there will be outrage from both the community, and the rest of Dawn Patrol. As the two cases overlap in unexpected ways, an isolated Boone finds himself struggling to stay afloat as the water gets deeper…and more deadly.