‘Probably the best cop novel ever written’ Lee ChildFrom the New York Time s bestselling author of The Cartel – winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Aw ard for Best Thriller of the Year – comes The Force, a cinematic epic as explo sive, powerful, and unforgettable as The Wire.Everyone can be bought. At the r ight price…Detective Sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gang s, drugs and guns in New York. For eighteen years he’s been on the front lines , doing whatever it takes to survive in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean.What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is di rty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now he’s caught in a trap and being squeezed by the FBI. He must walk a thin line of betrayal, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.