Nice read, I just hope people don’t think all law enforcement are like this!

the writing style, language and details put you right in nyc, nowhere else.

I think this is the best book of the series. This kept me anxious and ready for the next chapter every time I read. Very highly recommended.

An uncomfortable look at police work that feels just as real and truthful to today’s topics and news headline as nonfiction sources. This book is filled with compelling characters, top-notch pacing, and an exploration of a theme that reaches the ultimate climax that should be examined and, in the view of this fiction, be changed indefinitely.

Uses tough guy language to set a tone, and does so incessantly. I didn’t get beyond the first several chapters. There was no balancing voice, no plot moving forward, no one to care about.

Wow what a spellbinding book. I literally couldn’t put it down. What a outstanding story with some magnificent characters. Well done. Literary art at is finest. Congrats Don

Very well written and overall fascinating book. Gets going right away, not a dull page in the book, and truly captures the reader. 10/10!

Interesting at times but often focused on the immoral acts of a detective. The author portrays the police, the police hierarchy, the city government, the FBI, and criminal attorneys as loathsome crooks. At the same time, white cops are bigots who view all African Americans as gang bangers who are poor and addicted to drugs. The author splices the names of actual people to give his story a sense of realism and doesn’t hesitate to inject vignettes from the past without warning or in relation to his storyline. If you want to despise a fictional NYC and demean police officers, this is the book for you .

This was my first Don Winslow. How we never connected before now is a mystery as police procedurals are one of my favorite genres. The dialog is real, at least as real as this little white girl thinks cops talk on the street! The pace was breakneck from page one and never let up. Terrific story that really sucked me in. I’ll be reading more from Mr Winslow!

I received this book as an advance reader’s copy when I worked at a book store. I had never heard of the author. I took it home and was absolutely riveted. Even now, more than a year later, I still find myself thinking about the characters and how this story ultimately ended. Thrilling ride!