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The Force by Don Winslow
Aug. 13th, 2017 02:16 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Good cop or bad cop? We’re all corrupt …
Everyone can be bought. At the right price …
Detective sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gangs, drugs and guns in New York. For eighteen years he’s been on the front lines, doing whatever it takes to survive in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean.
What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now he’s caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds, and he must walk a thin line of betrayal, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Don Winslow’s police thriller is a gripping tale of corruption, politics, racial violence and the struggle to stay clean in a dirty city and although there’s nothing new in the storyline, it has a wonderful narrative voice and told with a real sense of place which had me gripped from beginning to end and is only let down by one double deal too many at the end.
THE FORCE was released in the United Kingdom on 22nd June 2017. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.
Everyone can be bought. At the right price …
Detective sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gangs, drugs and guns in New York. For eighteen years he’s been on the front lines, doing whatever it takes to survive in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean.
What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now he’s caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds, and he must walk a thin line of betrayal, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Don Winslow’s police thriller is a gripping tale of corruption, politics, racial violence and the struggle to stay clean in a dirty city and although there’s nothing new in the storyline, it has a wonderful narrative voice and told with a real sense of place which had me gripped from beginning to end and is only let down by one double deal too many at the end.
THE FORCE was released in the United Kingdom on 22nd June 2017. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the ARC of this book.
