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Denny Malone es un condecorado sargento de policía y el auténtico líder de la Unidad Especial de Manhattan Norte. Él y sus hombres son los más listos, los más duros, los más rápidos, los más valientes y los más canallas. Día y noche, durante los dieciocho años que ha pasado en el cuerpo de policía, Malone ha combatido en primera línea de fuego por las calles de Nueva York, una ciudad en la que nadie está limpio, ni siquiera el propio Malone.

This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you've never seen it.

From the internationally best-selling author of the acclaimed novel The Power of the Dog comes The Cartel, a gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines story of power, corruption, revenge, and justice spanning the past decade of the Mexican-American drug wars.

Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, “The Godfather for our generation” (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel trilogy (The Power of the Dog...

Seis cautivadores novelas breves escritas por uno de los grandes de la novela policiaca El autor bestseller internacional Don Winslow regresa con estas seis novelas breves hilvanadas por sus temas más explorados: el crimen, la corrupción, la venganza, la justicia, el engaño y la redención...

Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a P.I. who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal's college tuition, and Neal gets an education that can't be found in any textbook, from learning how to trail a suspect to mastering the proper way to search a room. Now it's payback time.

Sur la côte est, la guerre des gangs a fait rage et Danny Ryan a perdu. La Mafia, les flics, le FBI veulent tous le voir mort ou en prison. Avec son fils, son père vieillissant et les quelques rescapés de sa bande, il part tenter sa chance en Californie. À Hollywood, la ville où les rêves les plus fous se réalisent. Le sien est de mener enfin une existence tranquille et paisible. Sauf que les fédéraux le traquent : ils veulent lui demander une faveur qui fera de lui un homme riche, ou mort.

In Deep Hole, one of the world’s foremost crime novelists crafts a sweet, poignant romance novella that could only come from his perfectly calibrated sense of time and place. It incorporates fights and misunderstandings and rejection, and is set against the backdrop of a quiet surfing town in Rhode Island where everyone knows each other’s business—and pleasure.

From the master of crime fiction comes an unexpectedly whimsical short story about this San Diego surfer whose life plan is working perfectly until he meets a wealthy woman at an art gallery opening (the hors d’oeuvres), falls in love, and then has to masquerade as an upstanding member of society.

“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” – Stephen King “Winslow, whose work includes a dozen of the finest crime novels written in the last 20 years, displays all of his strengths, including propulsive narration, compelling characters and a tight, staccato writing style, in 'Broken,'...

At loose ends after four years in the Royal Navy, young James Harrington stumbles on an advertisement for an ‘Estate Manager’ and eagerly applies for the position. However, the job is not exactly what James expects. Navy Commander Hamilton Sterrett plans to completely refurbish an old estate and former girl’s school, Ironwood, which was left vacant for decades after rumours of its libertine past forced its doors to close.

Following his father Rupert’s death, his son Edward is packed off to Cheatem Manor in the English countryside. Although Rupert’s cousin has inherited the estate, the man must remain at his military post, leaving the estate and Edward’s upbringing in the hands of his father’s half-sister, Lady Amanda, and her two very beautiful wards, Catherine and Prudence. Once at the Manor, Edward is quickly reduced in status from honoured family member to lowly servant. Rather than spending a pleasure-filled summer in the country, he’s forced to serve this hedonistic household as a virtual slave

Egal, wie du in diese Welt kommst, du gehst gebrochen hinaus. Jimmy McNabb ist auf einem Rachefeldzug - für seinen kleinen Bruder Danny. Genau wie er war Danny Polizist und ist von einem Drogenhändler zu Tode gefoltert worden. Getrieben von blinder Wut schwört Jimmy als Leiter einer verschworenen Spezialtruppe, alle Täter zur Strecke zu bringen. Doch schon bald stellt sich ihm die Frage, ob seine Rache ihren Preis wert ist.

Als er das Mädchen hinter Gittern sieht, weiß er, dass er etwas gegen diese Ungerechtigkeit tun muss. Cal Strickland ist ein Cowboy alter Schule. Seiner Familie hat die Ranch an der Grenze zu Mexiko schon gehört, da hat es noch gar keine Grenze gegeben. Nun, da die Ranch kaum noch Geld abwirft, ist er bei der Border Patrol und bewacht das Land, das er liebt. Doch dieses siebenjährige Mädchen ohne Eltern in dem käfigartigen Verschlag sitzen zu sehen, lässt seine anhaltenden Zweifel an der aktuellen Politik zu einem folgenschweren Entschluss reifen.

Ben, Chon und O beschließen, ihr florierendes Marihuana-Business auszuweiten - Ziel ist Kauai, Hawaii. Schnell sichern sie sich die Hilfe von Tim Karsen, einem Plantagenbesitzer vor Ort. Doch Red Eddie, Gangsterboss der hawaiianischen "Firma", hat etwas gegen Eindringlinge vom Festland und diejenigen, die mit ihnen Geschäfte machen. Kit, Tim Karsens Sohn, bekommt dies bald am eigenen Leib zu spüren. Die Situation spitzt sich zu, als Red Eddie seine Männer aus Honolulu auf die kleine Insel schickt. Aber wenn Ben, Chon und O nicht bereit für Ärger im Paradies sind - wer dann?

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers, Savages was a Top 10 Book of...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Border, a “down-and-dirty dip into the treacherous social currents of Southern California” (The Wall Street Journal), in which P.I. Boone Daniels agrees to defend a young man accused of murdering a beloved surfer and local legend. Former cop...

Jack Wade, a claims adjuster for California Fire and Life Mutual Insurance Company, is one of the best arson investigators around. He's a man who knows fire, who can read the traces it leaves behind like a roadmap. When he's called in to examine an unusual claim, the tracks of the fire tell him...

When Tim Kearney draws a license plate across the throat of a Hell's Angel, he's pretty much a dead man. It's his third crime and, according to California law, that gives him "life without the possibility of parole." Killing a Hell's Angel also makes him a dead man on any prison yard in...

Art Keller, ancien agent de la DEA, est recruté par le sénateur républicain O'Brien pour participer à une opération officieuse au Guatemala : aider le cartel de Sinaloa, dont la mainmise sur le Mexique assure un semblant de stabilité à la région, à se débarrasser d'une organisation rivale sanguinaire, Los Zetas. Quand O'Brien propose à Keller de prendre la tête de la DEA, il y voit l'occasion de lutter contre les organisations qui sèment la mort en Amérique.