The Force: A Novel

All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. 

He’s the king of Manhattan North, an NYPD detective sergeant and the leader of “Da Force.” Malone and his crew are the smartest, the toughest, and the baddest. What few know is that Malone and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now being squeezed by the feds, Malone must try to survive while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all. 

The Force is a story of greed and violence, retribution and redemption that reveals the tensions between the police and the citizens they serve. A portrait of a courageous, heroic and deeply flawed man, it is a masterpiece of urban realism and the great cop novel of our time that only Don Winslow could write.