Don Winslow

Gebundenes Buch

The Final Score

Six Short Novels

Mitarbeit: Coleman, Reed Farrel

Beschreibung

"The best crime fiction I've read in twenty years." - Stephen King

#1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow-America's King of Crime Fiction-is back and he's better than ever.

The trademark literary style, trenchant wit, and incisive characterization that have made Don Winslow a repeat New York Times bestselling author and "America's greatest living crime writer" (Providence Journal)are on brilliant display in this new book sure to delight Winslow's most devoted fans and first-time readers.

The multi-million-dollar casino heist is impossible-it can't be done. That's what makes it irresistible to a legendary robber facing the rest of his life in prison for his "Final Score." An ambitious, hard-working college-bound teenager has a side job delivering illegal booze to "The Sunday List" until a crooked cop, a seductive customer, and a fake guru threaten to end his dreams. Two wise guys tell each other a "True Story" over breakfast at a diner. It's all bullshit and laughs until someone else has to pick up the check. An otherwise honest patrolman has to make an excruciating choice between his loyalty to the job and his love for a ne'er-do-well cousin in "The North Wing." The entitled, substance-addicted movie star that surfer/PI Boone Daniels and his crew are hired to babysit in "The Lunch Break" is a problem. She also has a problem-someone wants her dead. Finally, the one terrible, momentary mistake that a devoted family man makes sends him to prison and on a "Collision" course between the man he wants to be and the killer he's forced to become to survive.

The Final Score is a propulsive, perceptive, and deeply immersive book of crime writing - the ultimate testament to Don Winslow's prowess as a living legend of the genre.

Autor

Don Winslow is the author of twenty-six 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. Crime 101, based on Winslow's short novel, will be released as a theatrical film from Amazon. He has also written a series of award-winning short stories for Audible narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins US / William Morrow
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780063450424
• ISBN-10: 0063450429
• Artikelnr.: 73770109

Rezensionen

"The best crime fiction I've read in twenty years." - Stephen King

"Each of these stories has clever plotting and sharp dialogue, a hallmark of all the author's work." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"Winslow's keen ear for dialogue shines throughout . . . . It's always refreshing to spend time with Winslow's inimitable prose." - Publishers Weekly

"Superb . . . . These stories spotlight the things Winslow is known for: vividly realized characters, morally ambiguous situations, pitch-perfect dialogue, and stories that pull us in and refuse to let us go. The author has published some astonishingly good fiction-see, for example, the

Cartel trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel; and The Border) along with The Force-and the tales in The Final Score are among his best work. . . . It's great to have this exceptional crime writer back in action." - Booklist

"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 on CITY IN RUINS

"City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. Nobody does it better. The novel builds and builds, the drama, the suspense, our feelings for the central characters-and then everything comes together. Actually, everything explodes. It's a beautiful, artful thing. Winslow has saved the best for last." - James Patterson on CITY IN RUINS

"Winslow has produced a masterpiece of modern crime fiction." - Wall Street Journal on CITY IN RUINS

"City of Dreams confirms Winslow as the rarest of literary creatures: a skilled crime writer who can combine stories that are almost hardboiled in style and sensibility, with a sophisticated analysis of the fault lines of post-imperial United States."
- Sydney Morning Herald on CITY OF DREAMS

"The second volume in Winslow's Danny Ryan trilogy delivers on all the promise of its predecessor. . . the Danny Ryan saga draws great power from its consummate portrait of a man whose unshakable humanity imperils him just as it offers the possibility of salvation." - Booklist (starred review) on CITY OF DREAMS

"A masterwork of mob fiction." - Washington Post on CITY ON FIRE

"You don't read City on Fire so much as you let it take you for a ride."
- USA Today on CITY ON FIRE

"Don Winslow can hold his own with the best of crime fiction's elite. . . . He's a bard of the bad guys and City on Fire is his most relentless book yet."
- Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author on CITY ON FIRE