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.