The Force is a haunting story of greed and violence, inequality and race, crime and injustice, retribution and redemption that reveals the seemingly insurmountable tensions between the police and the diverse citizens they serve. Now Malone is caught in a trap and being squeezed by the feds, and he must walk the thin line between betraying his brothers and partners, the Job, his family, and the woman he loves, trying to survive, body and soul, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all. What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash in the wake of the biggest heroin bust in the city’s history. 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. 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 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 unit given unrestricted authority to wage war on gangs, drugs, and guns. It’s that good.” - Stephen KingĪll Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop.

From the acclaimed, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cartel -voted one of the best books of the year by more than sixty publications, including the New York Times -comes a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as Mystic River and The Wire.

Becoming super natural