Corruption : poems

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—makes his William Morrow debut with a cinematic epic as explosive, powerful, and unforgettable as Mystic River and The Wire.Our ends know our beginnings, but the reverse isn’t true . . .All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop.He is "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 special unit given carte blanche to fight gangs, drugs, and guns. 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 done whatever it takes to serve and protect in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean—including Malone himself.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. 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.This is the great cop novel of our time and a book only Don Winslow could write: 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. A searing portrait of a city on the edge and of a courageous, heroic, and deeply flawed man who stands at the edge of its abyss, The Force is a masterpiece of urban realism full of shocking a QUAND TOUT LE SYSTÈME EST POURRI AUTANT JOUER SELON SES PROPRES RÈGLES Denny Malone est le roi de Manhattan North, le leader charismatique de La Force, une unité d'élite qui fait la loi dans les rues de New York et n'hésite pas à se salir les mains pour combattre les gangs, les dealers et les trafiquants d'armes. Après dix-huit années de service, il est respecté et admiré de tous. Mais le jour où, après une descente, Malone et sa garde rapprochée planquent pour des millions de dollars de drogue, la ligne jaune est franchie. Le FBI le rattrape et va tout mettre en œuvre pour le force à dénoncer ses coéquipiers. Dans le même temps, il devient une cible pour les mafieux et les politiques corrompus. Seulement, Malone connaît tous leurs secrets. Et tous, il peut les faire tomber... À travers une narration abrupte et remarquablement réaliste, faisant écho à l'œuvre de Dennis Lehane comme aux films de Martin Scorsese, James Gray et Brian de Palma, Don Winslow livre un roman policier magistral, tableau étourdissant du crime organisé, actuellement en cours d'adaptation au cinéma par James Mangold (Copland). Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Jean Esch DES CRITIQUES DITHYRAMBIQUES "On pense immanquablement aux films noirs comme "Serpico" ou "Le prince de New York" de Sidney Lumet ; on songe aux romans de Nick Tosches, aussi. Autant dire, au meilleur du genre." LIRE "Un monument." France Culture "Il y a longtemps qu'on n'avait pas lu un polar aussi magistral." Le Parisien "Un triomphe. Pensez au Parrain, mais avec des flics." Stephen King "Tendu, brutal, très atmosphérique, incroyablement ficelé et totalement inoubliable." James Ellroy "Un roman policier d'envergure shakespearienne, probablement l'un des meilleurs jamais écrits." Lee Child "Les fans du Parrain, de Mystic River, de Sur écoute, ou des Inflitrés vont adorer." Mark Rubinstein, Huffington Post A rich debut collection from a promising new poet -- selected by Campbell McGrath as a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Open Competition For more than twenty-five years, the National Poetry Series has sought out and discovered new voices, helping to launch the careers of such luminaries as the former poet laureate Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez