WINSLOW DON

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Βασισμένη σε πολυετή έρευνα στα ενδότερα της Αστυνομίας της Νέας Υόρκης, η "Μονάδα" είναι το σημαντικότερο μυθιστόρημα του καιρού μας για αστυνομικούς, ένα βιβλίο που μόνο ο Ντον Γουίνσλοου θα μπορούσε να γράψει. Η "Μονάδα" είναι μια ιστορία που σε στοιχειώνει, μια ιστορία απληστίας και βίας, ανισότητας και φυλετικών διακρίσεων, εγκλήματος και αδικίας, αντιποίνων και λύτρωσης, που αποκαλύπτει τις φαινομενικά ανυπέρβλητες εντάσεις ανάμεσα στην αστυνομία και στις ποικίλες ομάδες πολιτών που υπηρετεί. Το καυστικό πορτρέτο μιας πόλης και ένας ...
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(P/B) CITY ON FIRE
Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more "legit" life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and the family he has sworn to protect, he becomes a leader, a ruthless strategist, and a master of a ...
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(P/B) CITY ON FIRE
Two criminal empires together control all of New England. Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire. Danny Ryan yearns for a more "legit" life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and the family he has sworn to protect, he becomes a leader, a ruthless strategist, and a master of a ...
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(P/B) THE POWER OF THE DOG
Drug lord Miguel Angel Barrera is head of the Mexican drug federacion, responsible for millions of dollars worth of cocaine traffic into the US and the torture of those who stand in its way. His nephew, Adan Barrera, is his worthy successor. Art Keller is a US government operative, so determined to obtain revenge for a murdered colleague that his pursuit of the cartel veers dangerously towards an obsession outside the law. This is a world characterised by its brutality, yet all Winslow's incredibly varied cast - including a high class pros...
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(P/B) BROKEN
No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken... In six intense, haunting short novels, Don Winslow returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of his acclaimed body of work - crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption - to explore the savagery and nobility that drive and define the human condition. In Broken, Winslow creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops and jaded private detectives, dope dealers and government agents, bounty hunters and fugitives. Diverse...
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(P/B) THE WINTER OF FRANKIE MACHINE
Frank Machianno is the guy, a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. That's when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his long board. He's a beloved fixture of the community, a stand-up businessman, a devoted father to his daughter. Frank's also a hit man. Well, a retired hit man. Back in the day, when he was one of the most feared members of the West Coast mob, he was known as Frankie Machine. Years ago, Frank consigned his mob ties to the past...
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ΤΟ ΚΑΡΤΕΛ
2004. Μια αιματοβαμμένη βεντέτα εξελίσσεται στα σύνορα ΗΠΑ και Μεξικού. Ο Αρτ Κέλερ, πράκτορας της Δίωξης επί τριάντα χρόνια, δεν έχει κλείσει τους λογαριασμούς του με τον Αδάν Μπαρέρα, τον αρχηγό του ισχυρότερου καρτέλ ναρκωτικών στον κόσμο. Ο τελευταίος βγαίνει από τη φυλακή με σκοπό να ανασυγκροτήσει την αυτοκρατορία που διέλυσε ο εχθρός του. Ο Κέλερ, αποφασισμένος να συγκρουστεί με αυτόν που του κατέστρεψε τη ζωή, ξεκινά έναν δεκαετή αγώνα για να συντρίψει τον αδίστακτο ναρκέμπορο. Η εμμονή με τη δικαιοσύνη -ή μήπως την εκδίκηση;- αποτ...
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(P/B) SAVAGES
Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. In the past when their turf was challenged, Chon took care of eliminating the threat. But now they may have come up against something that they can't handle-the Mexican Baja Cartel wants in, sending them the message that a "no" is unacceptable. When they refuse to back down, the cartel escalates its threat, kidnapping Ophelia, the boys' playmate and confidant...
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(P/B) THE FORCE
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 smar...
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(P/B) THE KINGS OF COOL
In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twentysomething best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Now, in his high-octane prequel, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon and O became the people they are. Spanning fifty years, from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, it is a tale of family in all its forms - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. As the younger generation does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn ...
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(P/B) THE GENTLEMEN'S HOUR
Boone Daniels, a laid-back private investigator, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific beach. There's no surf, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force regardless...it's what they do. Having no work to do, and no real reason to go to the office, Boone stays for the second shift on the daily surfing clock - the Gentleman's Hour; and ends up taking on a hated matrimonial case. But that soon becomes the least of his worries. When The Sundowner, a symbolic icon of the San Diego surf scene, sees a murderous dispute between a young surfer and ...
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