![]() ![]() ![]() The Job - and those partners - had better pre-empt everything else in an elite cop’s life.ĭetective First Grade Dennis John Malone is the story’s arrogant hero, a case study in how unbearable pressure can push even the most idealistic guy on the Manhattan North Special Task Force to destroy everything he holds dear. ![]() He paints a realistic tableau of police privilege, pragmatism, racial bluntness, street smarts, love of partners and loyalty to what they call the Job. Winslow’s novel takes place in 2017, but he doesn’t frame it as a time of good cops and bad cops, black or white. “The Force” recalls Sidney Lumet’s great New York police films (“Serpico,” “Prince of the City”) and makes their agonies almost quaint by comparison. The simple answer is, “Step by step.” But this boisterous, profane book isn’t big on simple answers. “How do you cross the line?” asks the main character in “The Force,” Don Winslow’s shattering New York cop epic about an elite task force leader who’s a hero until he’s not. ![]()
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