The Force: A Novel
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
Instant New York Times Bestseller
Best 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 King
The 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.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Don Winslow. (2017). The Force: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Don Winslow. 2017. The Force: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Don Winslow, The Force: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Don Winslow. The Force: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2017.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 1 | 0 |
There are 2 holds on this title.
OverDrive Product Record
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/11E/086/F6/{11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/11E/086/F6/{11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062664426
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B01M1549OD
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062664426
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Don Winslow
- title
- The Force
- dateAdded
- 2017-06-16T23:05:01.417Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=2962716
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
- sortTitle
- Force A Novel
- crossRefId
- 2962716
- subtitle
- A Novel
- id
- 11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2
- starRating
- 3.6
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: TheForce_9780062664426_2962716
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 1121271
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062664426
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 1
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 6/21/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=11e086f6-9540-4081-9309-6c60fb3415b2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheForce_2962716
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B01M1549OD
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 6/21/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=11e086f6-9540-4081-9309-6c60fb3415b2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheForce_9780062664426_2962716
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 2102093
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062664426
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 6/21/2017
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=11e086f6-9540-4081-9309-6c60fb3415b2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Winslow, Don
- bioText:
Don Winslow is the author of twenty-five acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including seven New York Times bestsellers (Savages, The Kings of Cool, The Cartel, The Force, The Border, City on Fire and City of Dreams). Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone from a screenplay by Shane Salerno, Winslow and Stone. Winslow's epic Cartel trilogy has been adapted for TV and will appear as a weekly series on FX. Additional Winslow books are currently in development at Paramount (The Winter of Frankie Machine), Netflix (Boone Daniels), Warner Brothers (Satori), Sony (City on Fire, City of Dreams, City in Ruins) and Working Title ("Crime 101") and he has recently written a series of acclaimed and award winning short stories for Audible narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow has announced that City in Ruins will be his final novel.
- name: Don Winslow
- imprint
- William Morrow Cookbooks
- publishDate
- 2017-06-20T00:00:00-04:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Force
- fullDescription
Instant New York Times Bestseller
Best 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.
- reviews
- premium: False
- source: Stephen King
- content:
"Mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather, only with cops. It's that good." — Stephen King
"Intensely human in its tragic details, positively Shakespearean in its epic sweep—probably the best cop novel ever written." — Lee Child
"A scorcher." — New York Times Book Review
"Shocking authenticity is the lifeblood of Don Winslow's The Force. I stopped everything I was doing to read it straight through. Detective Sergeant Denny Malone takes us on a searing journey through the corruption that lies at the heart of our justice system. I wish I'd written it!" — Greg Iles, author of Mississippi Blood
"Don Winslow's New York copy novel The Force is a scorcher, and if his sources are on the level it's time for another Knapp Commission." — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
"Don Winslow's novel The Force isn't just one of the great New York City cop novels ever written. It is one of the great New York City novels ever written." — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News
"Don Winslow's summer blockbuster, The Force, is ready-made for Hollywood... A big, fat book of fast-moving fiction... Riveting and scary — in a lot of ways." — Neely Tucker, Washington Post
"(A) shattering New York cop epic... The pace is kept up by the Winslow way with words, which almost entirely defies being quoted here, either because of the slang (Elmore Leonard league) or because of the everyday obscenities that lace every funny line." — Janet Maslin, New York Times
"Winslow brings incisively-researched details, gut-wrenching plotlines, and infinite heart to his all-too-real, highly compassionate tale." — Daneet Steffens, Boston Globe
"There won't be a better cop novel this year than The Force by Don Winslow. Not next year, or the year after that, either." — Linwood Barclay
"It's one of the most daring and explosive books of summer, grabbing readers by the front of the shirt and dragging them into a world where honor and wrongdoing are mismatched partners... (It has) a sardonic, streetwise voice — like a pissed off conscience, telling a cautionary tale." — Anthony Breznican, Entertainment Weekly
"The pressure on Malone becomes so intense it makes Henry Hill's paranoia in "Good Fellas" look like a mild case of OCD... What makes The Force unique among police procedurals is that it's not the story of a rogue cop with a code... but a sneakily subversive post-Ferguson thriller." — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times
"A brilliant novel, rich in language, conflict, setting, and character. It resonates deeply with realism, honesty, and sheer magnetism. Fans of "The Godfather," "Mystic River," "The Wire," and "The Departed" will absolutely love this book." — Mark Rubinstein, Huffington Post
"The immersion into the world of the NYPD is so brutal and honest that it's difficult to imagine that Winslow was never a policeman." — Jeff Ayers, Washington Post
"Part The Godfather, part The Wire, The Force is a Molotov cocktail of cops and corruption, where good guys are also bad guys, and police malfeasance isn't just about skimming money off drug busts—it's about ... the corruption that comes when trying to do the right thing." — Abigail Jones, Newsweek
"Winslow peers into the soul of modern America through the eyes of a supremely skilled and corrupt police...
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
Starred review from April 10, 2017
Edgar-finalist Winslow (The Cartel) peers into the soul of modern America through the eyes of a supremely skilled and corrupt police officer, in this epic novel of devastating moral complexity. Dennis Malone, a veteran NYPD detective sergeant, leads the Manhattan North Special Task Force, an elite unit established to combat drugs, gangs, and guns. Keeping the citizens safe is often messy work and sometimes requires unorthodox methods to get results. Gradually, however, Malone and his crew have slipped over the edge, stealing millions in drugs and cash over the years, including a massive amount of heroin seized in the city’s biggest-ever drug bust. Now the feds have built a case against Malone, and they threaten to take him down if he doesn’t help bring in bigger players in the criminal food chain, even if it means betraying his partners. As the reader discovers, Malone’s corruption is but a tiny part of a much larger system that extends into the highest reaches of New York’s power structure, where the real business is done, and everyone on the chain takes a cut. Fans of modern masters such as Don DeLillo, Richard Price, and George Pelecanos will be richly rewarded. Agent: Shane Salerno, Story Factory.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
April 15, 2017
Savage dope dealers, dirty cops, corrupt officials, and a few hapless civilians mix it up in New York City.After The Cartel (2015), Winslow follows the drug trade onto the streets. The Manhattan North Special Task Force is a lightly supervised assemblage of "the smartest, the toughest, the quickest, the bravest, the best, the baddest" cops in the NYPD, and Denny Malone commands a happily representative task force squad: his boyhood pal Phil Russo; big, black Bill Montague, who dresses like an Ivy League professor; and Billy O'Neill, the youngest. The book opens with Malone in a federal lockup--how he got there unfolds in breakneck flashbacks told in the cadences and vocabulary of a cop's speech. The pivotal, but by no means the first, of his many indiscretions is skimming $4 million and 20 kilos of heroin from the scene of a major bust. He also executes the kingpin, and in the raid, Billy is killed. The narrative picks up five months later, and the legal and extralegal exploits of the task force are detailed. The reader is asked to admire the effectiveness of their policing while condemning their methods--Joseph Wambaugh did it better. Malone's brother, Liam, a firefighter, was killed on 9/11, and that horrific disaster for first responders forms a grim attitudinal backdrop to their days. Malone and the boys are dirty cops: they take and deliver payoffs, ignore the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement, and administer crude vigilante justice. Drugs are gotten off the street, though some may go up their noses or into their lungs. Eventually Malone is trapped, caught on tape offering to broker a payoff to an assistant district attorney. He cuts a deal to name lawyers but not cops, but corrupt prosecutors and deceitful administrators confound him. His alternatives shrink; more deals are made and abrogated. Are Malone's crimes an inescapable consequence of his working conditions? Must the police break the law to keep the peace? By turns grim and giddy, this is a good read in the service of dark cops.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
April 1, 2017
After more than a dozen acclaimed, under-the-radar novels, Winslow moved into the first rank of American thriller writers with his drug-war odyssey The Cartel. His latest offers a similarly epic take on the cop novel, though it lacks its predecessor's singular brilliance. Denny Malone, a veteran NYPD detective sergeant, stalks the streets of Upper Manhattan, knowing nothing happens or gets dealt without his knowledge or consent. The higher-ups have given his elite team, "Da Force," free rein to keep the peace, even if rules are bent and spoils pocketed along the way. In a city where someone's going to profit off the drugs and the violence, why shouldn't it be his team? Malone prides himself on loyalty and tradition, but after a multimillion-dollar heroin bust gets the attention of the feds, he's forced to make an unthinkable decision: to turn on his brother cops and rat on his beloved teammates. VERDICT Winslow's writing, with its torrents of profane, single-sentence paragraphs, is as potent as ever, but his story's trajectory is familiar, particularly for fans of the show The Shield. Despite those reservations, this propulsive novel should be eagerly welcomed by readers of Ken Bruen. [See Prepub Alert, 12/12/16.]--Michael Pucci, South Orange P.L., NJ
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
January 1, 2017
In this latest from New York Times best-selling author Winslow, who scooped up Los Angeles Times Book Prize and New York Times Critics' Pick credentials for his recent The Cartel, NYPD detective sergeant Denny Malone is committed to fighting the good fight--except now he's dirty, too. With a 250,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
- popularity
- 1461
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/11e086f6-9540-4081-9309-6c60fb3415b2/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- 11e086f6-9540-4081-9309-6c60fb3415b2
- starRating
- 3.6
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2}Img100.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0293-1/{11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2}Img200.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0293-1/11E/086/F6/{11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2}Img150.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0293-1/11E/086/F6/{11E086F6-9540-4081-9309-6C60FB3415B2}Img400.jpg
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fiction
- value: Mystery
- value: Suspense
- value: Thriller
- publishDateText
- 06/20/2017
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9780062664440
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
Instant New York Times Bestseller
Best 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...
- sortTitle
- Force A Novel
- crossRefId
- 2962716
- subtitle
- A Novel
- publisher
- HarperCollins
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC022020
- description: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
- code: FIC030000
- description: Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
- code: FIC031010
- description: Fiction / Thrillers / Crime
