{"product_id":"9781460791585_the-force","title":"The Force","description":"'Intensely human in its tragic details, positively Shakespearian in its epic sweep - probably the best cop novel ever written.' Lee Child. \u003cbr\u003eDon Winslow, the acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cartel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Power of the Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, delivers a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful and unforgettable as \u003cem\u003eMystic River\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\u003e'\u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/em\u003e, only with cops. It's that good.' Stephen King\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\u003e'Hard-core, jaw-dropping goodness...you'll be turning the pages so quickly, you'll blister your fingers' Ian Rankin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\u003eAll Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\u003eMalone and his crew are an elite NYPD special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs and guns. Every day and every night for eighteen years, 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 style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\u003eWhat only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty. Now he's 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 style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\u003eBased on years of research inside the NYPD, \u003cem\u003eThe Force \u003c\/em\u003eis a searing portrait of a city on the brink and of a courageous, heroic, and deeply flawed man who stands at the edge of its abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\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' Val McDermid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\u003e'If you've never read Don Winslow before than stop what you're doing RIGHT NOW and read this book. How can I adequately describe the utter visceral genius of it? It's like \u003cem\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/em\u003e meets \u003cem\u003eThe Wire\u003c\/em\u003e. Dennis Lehane crossed with Joseph Wambaugh. Shakespearean tragedy with a New York accent. Quite simply, \u003cem\u003eThe Force\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece.' Simon Toyne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"\" letter-spacing:=\"\"\u003e'[An] epic novel of devastating moral complexity ... Fans of modern masters such as Don DeLillo, Richard Price, and George Pelecanos will be richly rewarded' \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Don Winslow is the Martin Scorsese of crime literature and this is his tour de force' \u003cem\u003eAustralian Women's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Don Winslow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46900168884373,"sku":"9781460791585","price":50.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781460791585_fe9c456c-9a57-467c-907e-e6f763cf90ad.jpg?v=1776888171","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781460791585_the-force","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}