Don Winslow

Sex berättelser och sex livsavgörande ögonblick – där varje val kan bli det sista … Ett mångmiljonrån mot ett kasino tycks omöjligt, och just därför blir det oemotståndligt för en legendarisk rånare som står inför ett livstidsstraff. En ambitiös tonåring på väg till college extraknäcker med att leverera illegal sprit – tills en korrumperad polis, en förförisk kund och en falsk guru hotar att krossa hans drömmar. En i övrigt hederlig polisman tvingas göra ett plågsamt val mellan lojalitet till jobbet och kärleken till sin hopplösa kusin. Två gangstrar skryter om sina bedrifter över frukost på en diner. Det är skratt och skitsnack – tills någon annan tvingas ta notan. Den bortskämda, drogberoende filmstjärna som Boone Daniels och hans gäng anlitas för att hålla koll på är ett problem. Men hon har också ett eget problem – någon vill döda henne. Slutligen, leder ett enda fruktansvärt ögonblicksbeslut till att en hängiven familjefar hamnar i fängelse – och rakt in i en kollision mellan den man han vill vara och den mördare han tvingas bli för att överleva. Med sin karaktäristiska stil beskriver Don Winslow den tunna linjen mellan normalitet och kriminalitet i det moderna USA, i sex helt nyskrivna noveller som passar både inbitna fans och nya läsare. Ett sista ord är en fartfylld, intensiv och skarpsynt samling kriminalberättelser – det ultimata beviset på Don Winslows skicklighet och storhet inom genren. Don Winslow (f. 1953) har skrivit fler än tjugo hyllade, prisbelönta och internationellt bästsäljande romaner. Flera av hans böcker har blivit filmatiserade, bland annat av den Oscarsbelönade Oliver Stone. Don Winslow har tidigare arbetat som privatutredare, antiterrorutbildare och rättegångskonsult och bor i dag i Kalifornien och Rhode Island med sin fru.

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of City in Ruins, Don Winslow, and series editor Steph Cha.The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction, and it is the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.Don Winslow, the Raymond Chandler Award-winning author of City in Ruins, picks the best twenty mystery and suspense stories from the previous year.

'One of America's greatest storytellers' - Stephen King#1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow - America's King of Crime Fiction - is back and he's better than ever in this intense, deeply felt, gripping collection of six all-new, never-before-published short novels. In six all-new short novels written with the trademark literary style, trenchant wit, and incisive characterization that have made Don Winslow "America's greatest living crime writer" (Providence Journal), this repeat New York Times bestselling author serves up a collection of tales 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.With a foreword written by award-winning crime author Reed Farrel Coleman, The Final Score is a propulsive, perceptive, and deeply immersive collection of crime writing - the ultimate testament to Don Winslow's prowess as a living legend of the genre.

'One of America’s greatest storytellers' – Stephen King #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow – America’s King of Crime Fiction – is back and he’s better than ever in this intense, deeply felt, gripping collection of six all-new, never-before-published short novels. In six all-new short novels written with the trademark literary style, trenchant wit, and incisive characterization that have made Don Winslow “America’s greatest living crime writer” (Providence Journal), this repeat New York Times bestselling author serves up a collection of tales 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. With a foreword written by award-winning crime author Reed Farrel Coleman, The Final Score is a propulsive, perceptive, and deeply immersive collection of crime writing — the ultimate testament to Don Winslow's prowess as a living legend of the genre.

Ibland måste du bli det du hatar för att skydda det du älskar …Danny Ryan är rik. Bortom-hans-vildaste-drömmar-rik. Den före detta hamnarbetaren, irländske soldaten och lagbrytaren är nu en respekterad affärsman – en kasinomogul, miljardär och tyst partner i en grupp som äger två påkostade hotell. Äntligen har Danny allt: ett vackert hus, ett barn han älskar, en kvinna som han kanske till och med kommer att bli kär i. Livet är gott. Men så begår han ett förödande misstag. Stad i ruiner är en episk kriminalroman om kärlek och hat, ambition och desperation, hämnd och medkänsla, och den tredje och avslutande delen i City-trilogin. Don Winslow har skrivit mer än 20 hyllade, prisbelönta och bästsäljande böcker, bland annat Styrkan och Muren, flera av hans böcker har blivit filmatiserade av den Oscarsbelönade Oliver Stone. Don Winslow har tidigare jobbat som privatutredare, antiterrorutbildare och rättegångskonsult. "Den sista förödande delen om organiserad brottslighet som matchar Gudfadern. Om du gillar Scarface och Maffiabröder är det här det du vill ha." Stephen King "Underhållande action och oväntade vändpunkter." Kristofer Flensmarck, BTJ-häftet "Don Winslows Stad-svit är ett svindlande maffiaepos fylld med mustiga karaktärer. Om det är lika bra som Gudfadern ska vara osagt, men det är förbaskat bra läsning." Per Åhlin, Gefle Dagblad "Om det här verkligen är Winslows sista roman, som han har sagt att det är, så avslutar han på topp." Booklist

*LONGLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2025* *A Times thriller of the year* Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow’s epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow's extraordinary career. 'A gangland trilogy to equal THE GODFATHER. If you like SCARFACE and GOODFELLAS, this is where it's at.' STEPHEN KING 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.

Hot on the heels of the "superb" (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow.Don't miss CITY IN RUINS, the final instalment in the trilogy, available to preorder now!*Waterstones Best Book of 2023: Crime and Thriller*'This is storytelling at its inspiring, epic best, and it feels like a movie in the making.' Daily Mail'As powerful as anything in Winslow's majestic Cartel trilogy' Sunday Times'Even sharper, funnier, and more brilliant than its predecessor.' Amazon Best Books of April 2023'CITY OF DREAMS is a crime classic. Winslow's best book, by far. You won't put it down' Stephen King'Winslow should not be allowed to write so brilliantly. It's unfair on all other authors!' Peter James"City Of Dreams is a mesmerizing coast-to-coast crime epic." James PattersonHollywood.The city where dreams are made.On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life.A quiet, peaceful existence.But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him.And when Hollywood starts shooting a film of his former life, Danny demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire.Then he falls in love.With a beautiful movie star who has a dark past of her own.As their worlds collide in an explosion that could destroy them both, Danny Ryan has to fight for his life in a city where dreams are born.Or where they go to die.From the shores of Rhode Island to the deserts of California where bodies disappear, from the power corridors of Washington where the real criminals operate to the fabled movie studios of Hollywood where the real money is made, City of Dreams is a sweeping saga of family, love, revenge, survival and the fierce reality behind the dream.

Hot on the heels of the “superb” (Stephen King) New York Times bestseller City on Fire comes the explosive second novel in an epic crime trilogy from #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow. Don't miss CITY IN RUINS, the final instalment in the trilogy, available to preorder now! *Waterstones Best Book of 2023: Crime and Thriller* 'This is storytelling at its inspiring, epic best, and it feels like a movie in the making.’ Daily Mail ‘As powerful as anything in Winslow’s majestic Cartel trilogy’ Sunday Times ‘Even sharper, funnier, and more brilliant than its predecessor.’ Amazon Best Books of April 2023 ‘CITY OF DREAMS is a crime classic. Winslow's best book, by far. You won't put it down’ Stephen King ‘Winslow should not be allowed to write so brilliantly. It’s unfair on all other authors!’ Peter James "City Of Dreams is a mesmerizing coast-to-coast crime epic." James Patterson Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. A quiet, peaceful existence. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him. And when Hollywood starts shooting a film of his former life, Danny demands a piece of the action and begins to rebuild his criminal empire. Then he falls in love. With a beautiful movie star who has a dark past of her own. As their worlds collide in an explosion that could destroy them both, Danny Ryan has to fight for his life in a city where dreams are born. Or where they go to die. From the shores of Rhode Island to the deserts of California where bodies disappear, from the power corridors of Washington where the real criminals operate to the fabled movie studios of Hollywood where the real money is made, City of Dreams is a sweeping saga of family, love, revenge, survival and the fierce reality behind the dream.

Tras Ciudad en llamas y Ciudad de los ensue os, Ciudad en ruinas es la ins lita e ineludible conclusi n de la pica trilog a polic aca de Don Winslow, autor de bestseller del New York Times, y el ltimo libro de su extraordinaria carrera.A veces tienes que convertirte en lo que odias para proteger lo que amas.Danny Ryan es rico.M s de lo que alguna vez so .El antiguo trabajador portuario, soldado de la mafia irlandesa y fugitivo de la ley es ahora un respetado hombre de negocios: un magnate de los casinos de Las Vegas y multimillonario socio silencioso de un grupo propietario de dos lujosos hoteles. Por fin, Danny lo tiene todo: una hermosa casa, un hijo al que adora, una mujer de la que incluso podr a enamorarse.La vida es buena.Pero entonces Danny llega demasiado lejos.Cuando intenta comprar un viejo hotel en una zona privilegiada con la intenci n de construir el complejo tur stico de sus sue os, desencadena una guerra contra los poderosos agentes de Las Vegas, un importante agente del FBI empe ado en vengarse y el propietario de un casino rival con sus propias oscuras conexiones.Danny pensaba que hab a enterrado su pasado, pero ahora el pasado se le acerca desde la tumba para destruirlo. Salen a la superficie viejos enemigos, y cuando vienen por Danny juran quit rselo todo: no s lo su imperio y su vida, sino todo lo que aprecia, incluido su hijo.Para salvar su vida y todo lo que ama, Danny debe convertirse en el despiadado luchador que una vez fue y que nunca quiso volver a ser.Desde los antros de Providence, Rhode Island, hasta los pasillos del poder de Washington, D. C. y Wall Street, pasando por los dorados casinos de Las Vegas, Ciudad en ruinas es una pica novela policial de amor y odio, ambici n y desesperaci n, venganza y compasi n. -----Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book 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.

Ibland måste du bli det du hatar för att skydda det du älskar …Danny Ryan är rik. Bortom-hans-vildaste-drömmar-rik. Den före detta hamnarbetaren, irländske soldaten och lagbrytaren är nu en respekterad affärsman – en kasinomogul, miljardär och tyst partner i en grupp som äger två påkostade hotell. Äntligen har Danny allt: ett vackert hus, ett barn han älskar, en kvinna som han kanske till och med kommer att bli kär i. Livet är gott. Men så begår han ett förödande misstag.Stad i ruiner är en episk kriminalroman om kärlek och hat, ambition och desperation, hämnd och medkänsla, och den tredje och avslutande delen i City-trilogin.Don Winslow har skrivit mer än 20 hyllade, prisbelönta och bästsäljande böcker, bland annat Styrkan och Muren, flera av hans böcker har blivit filmatiserade av den Oscarsbelönade Oliver Stone. Don Winslow har tidigare jobbat som privatutredare, antiterrorutbildare och rättegångskonsult."Den sista förödande delen om organiserad brottslighet som matchar Gudfadern. Om du gillar Scarface och Maffiabröder är det här det du vill ha." Stephen King"Underhållande action och oväntade vändpunkter." Kristofer Flensmarck, BTJ-häftet"Don Winslows Stad-svit är ett svindlande maffiaepos fylld med mustiga karaktärer. Om det är lika bra som Gudfadern ska vara osagt, men det är förbaskat bra läsning." Per Åhlin, Gefle Dagblad"Om det här verkligen är Winslows sista roman, som han har sagt att det är, så avslutar han på topp." Booklist

Hollywood – där drömmen blir sann ...Danny Ryan befinner sig på flykt efter en blodig förlust. Maffian, polisen, FBI – alla vill se honom, om inte död, så i alla fall fängslad. Med sin son, åldrande far och det som återstår av hans lojala gäng migrerar Danny till Kalifornien för att börja om på nytt. En lugn och rofylld tillvaro är det han eftersträvar. Men polisen hittar honom och ber Danny om en tjänst som antingen gör honom rik ... eller får honom dödad.När ett produktionsbolag sedan vill göra en dokumentär om hans tidigare liv ser Danny en möjlighet att ekonomiskt bygga upp sitt kriminella imperium igen. Allt ser ut att gå Dannys väg tills han möter en vacker filmstjärna och blir kär. Hon verkar dock dölja ett mörkt förflutet och deras kärlek blir förödande för dem båda. Danny måste nu kämpa för sina drömmar annars kommer allt att rasera ...En svepande familjesaga där kärlek, hämnd, överlevnad och en skrämmande verklighet gömmer sig bakom drömmen om det perfekta livet."Superb!" Stephen King"Don Winslow är en av vår tids mest kraftfulla författare." Jens LapidusOm Stad i brand:"En glödhet, ursinnig roman med stor skärpa ..." Kirkus"Inget mindre än genialisk! … Jag kan knappt vänta på nästa del i serien." Jeffery Deaver"Detta är Winslow när han är som allra bäst." Karin SlaughterDon Winslow (f. 1953) (f. 1953) har skrivit mer än 20 hyllade, prisbelönta och bästsäljande böcker, bland annat Styrkan och Muren, flera av hans böcker har blivit filmatiserade av den Oscarsbelönade Oliver Stone. Don Winslow har tidigare jobbat som privatutredare, antiterrorutbildare och rättegångskonsult, och bor i dag i Kalifornien och Rhode Island med sin fru.