The Force A Novel [Paperback]

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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 theDaily 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 ofThe Cartel—voted one of the Best Books of the Year by more than sixty publications, including theNew York Times—makes his William Morrow debut with a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable asMystic RiverandThe 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 ilÃF