City in Ruins: A Novel
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Don Winslow. (2024). City in Ruins: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Don Winslow. 2024. City in Ruins: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Don Winslow, City in Ruins: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2024.

Don Winslow. City in Ruins: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2024.

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     Don Winslow is the author of twenty-five acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including eight New York Times bestsellers (Savages, The Kings of Cool, The Cartel, The Force, The Border, City on Fire, City of Dreams and City in Ruins). 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.

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Instant New York Times Bestseller!

"The final shattering installment in a gangland trilogy to equal The Godfather. If you like Scarface and Goodfellas, this is where it's at." — Stephen King

"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow has saved the best for last." — James Patterson

"The Godfather for our generation." — Adrian McKinty

From 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.

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     January 1, 2024
     If this really is Winslow's final novel, as he's said it will be, then he's going out on a high note. The follow-up to City on Fire (2021) and City of Dreams (2023) showcases everything that makes Winslow a spectacular writer: brilliantly realized characters, dialogue that rings true, and a story that explores the darkness that exists within each of us. Here, Danny Ryan--who, in the trilogy's first entry, was forced to head a Rhode Island criminal empire--is now a billionaire casino owner in Las Vegas with a family to boot. He hopes his days fighting turf wars are behind him, but he ruffles feathers when he makes a bid to buy an old hotel. Unprepared for the catastrophic events that follow and the revenge sought by figures from his past, he must once again fight, and this time he's protecting not only himself but his child, too. Clearing the veneer of civility to reveal his characters' animal instincts, Winslow concludes his remarkable literary career with an exciting thrill ride for readers.

     COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Starred review from February 12, 2024
     Winslow (City of Dreams) concludes his Danny Ryan trilogy—and his career as a novelist—with an addictive finale that charts the Rhode Island mobster turned Las Vegas casino mogul’s turbulent business dealings and deadly feuds. In 1997, Ryan has relocated from California to Sin City, using millions of dollars of stolen cartel money to buy his way into the thriving Tara Group corporation. As director of hotel operations, Ryan owns two leading properties on the Strip, with ambitions to build a third: his elegant dream hotel, Il Sogno. When Ryan’s chief rival, Vernon Winegard, bids on a crumbling 1950s relic in a prime location for Il Sogno, Ryan slyly undermines the sale, blocking Vernon’s plans to dominate the Strip. Retaliatory moves from Vernon, together with FBI subdirector Regina Moneta’s relentless efforts to get revenge on Ryan for his role in the death of her lover 10 years earlier, soon demolish his hotelier dreams and turn his days into a gory fight for survival. Bolstered by careful plotting and meticulous attention to character, Winslow’s ambitious narrative culminates with an exhilarating climax that beautifully wraps up the series’ many plot threads. It’s a fitting swan song from a giant of crime fiction. Agent: Shane Salerno, Story Factory.

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     Starred review from January 15, 2024
     The dramatic conclusion to the trilogy about two New England crime families begun in City on Fire (2022) and City of Dreams (2023). Near the end of his journey, multimillionaire Danny Ryan watches a casino implode in a mushroom cloud of dust and muses about his life's implosions: "The cancer that killed his wife, the depression that destroyed his love, the moral rot that took his soul." Danny is from Providence, Rhode Island, and desperately tried to leave his criminal life behind him. But using a ton of ill-gotten gains, he invests heavily in Las Vegas properties. Congress is conducting an investigation into gambling that could destroy his casino business and even land him in jail. An FBI agent plans to take Danny down for major sins he'd like to repent for. Meanwhile, can he make peace with his enemies? Nope, doesn't look like it. Even if the parties involved want to put the past behind them, the trouble is that they don't trust each other. Is Vern Winegard setting Dan up? Is Dan setting Vern up? "Trust? Trust is children waiting for Santa Claus." So what could have been a "Kumbaya," nobody-wants-to-read-this story turns into a grisly bloodletting filled with language that would set Sister Mary Margaret's wimple on fire--figuratively speaking, as she's not in the book. But the Catholic reference is appropriate: Two of the many colorful characters of ill repute are known as the Altar Boys, serving "Last Communion" to their victims. On the law-abiding side and out of the line of fire is an ex-nun-turned-prosecutor nicknamed Attila the Nun, who's determined to bring justice for a gory matricide. (Rhode Island really had such a person, by the way.) Finally, the prose is just fun: A friend warns Dan about Allie Licata: "In a world of sick fucks, even the sick fucks think Licata's a sick fuck." A couple of things to note: This not only ends the trilogy, but it also closes out the author's career, as he has said he'll write no more novels. If you love good crime writing but aren't familiar with Winslow's work, read this trilogy in order.

     COPYRIGHT(2024) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     April 26, 2024
     

     This is the riveting finale (after City of Dreams) to the Danny Ryan saga penned by the superb Don Winslow, who has stated that this will be his final novel. The pursuit of the American Dream has evolved throughout the narrative of Danny Ryan but is best encapsulated in the culmination. A bloody gang war led to Danny Ryan's flight from Rhode Island in the mid-1980s. Nearly a decade removed from the carnage on the streets of Providence, Ryan is now living in Las Vegas. In the desert mecca, Ryan has remade himself as a high-level executive running a profitable casino. The one-time knock-around guy has become legitimate and yearns to put the past in his rearview mirror. Despite appearances of legitimacy, there is a rogue government agent intent on bringing Ryan down. Soon, Ryan's friendly rivalry with a fellow casino owner becomes contentious. A war for Sin City is about to be waged both in the boardrooms and outside the city limits. Ryan must defend himself, his family, and his friends from threats near and far. VERDICT If this is truly Winslow's valediction, one couldn't ask for anything more fitting and rewarding.--Philip Zozzaro

     Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Winslow has saved the best for last." — James Patterson

"The Godfather for our generation." — Adrian McKinty

From 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...

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