The Final Score

"This is a collection of six previously unpublished short novels, and they are, every one of them, superb .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, 2005; The Cartel, 2015; and The Border, 2019) along with The Force (2017)-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 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
"After a brief period of retirement, Winslow's welcome return to writing proves that he's still a deft hand at crime fiction. Running the gamut from action-packed to uproariously funny to deeply poignant, every story in this collection hits its mark." - Library Journal (starred review)
"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
"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
"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 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
"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
"A masterwork of mob fiction." - Washington Post 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
"You don't read City on Fire so much as you let it take you for a ride."
- USA Today on CITY ON FIRE