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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.

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.

Après les deux premiers tomes de la trilogie explosive du maître du polar Don Winslow, voici le troisième volume aussi épique et ambitieux, La Cité sous les cendres, livre annoncé comme le dernier dans la carrière de son brillant auteur. Parfois, il faut devenir ce que l'on déteste pour protéger ce que l'on aime. Danny Ryan est riche. Riche au-delà de ses rêves les plus fous. L'ancien docker, soldat de la mafia irlandaise et fugitif est désormais un homme d'affaires respecté – un magnat des casinos de Las Vegas et un partenaire silencieux dans un groupe qui possède deux somptueux hôtels.

État de Rhode Island, 1986. Danny Ryan, 29 ans, est docker. Intelligent, loyal et réservé, il n'a jamais vraiment trouvé sa place au sein du clan des Irlandais qui règne sur une partie de la ville. Son rêve : fuir loin de cet endroit où il n'a pas d'avenir. Mais lorsque Paulie Moretti, mafieux d'une famille italienne jusque-là amie, s'affiche avec sa nouvelle conquête, Hélène de Troie des temps modernes, Danny se retrouve mêlé à une guerre sans merci à laquelle il ne peut échapper.

Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman – a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own.

The war has come home. For over 40 years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: the War on Drugs. His obsession with defeating the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel - Adán Barrera - has cost him people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul. Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created 30 more that are wreaking chaos in his beloved Mexico. But not just there.

Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client, but he's tempted to do the job himself. Sometime student and ever-reluctant detective Neal Carey would rather be finishing a dull doctoral thesis than staring down the nose of a loaded gun...

From domestic war to barroom brawls, grad-student-turned-PI Neal Carey's got more than studying on his plate. Neal Carey's three-year confinement in a Chinese monastery is finally over, but his troubles are just beginning. The elusive financial benefactors who have bought his freedom expect a...

Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Storer Frank Machianno is a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. An affable Italian with a love of people and life, he's a stand-up businessman, devoted father, and a beloved fixture in the...

Boone Daniels lives to surf. Every morning he's out with the Dawn Patrol: four men and one woman as single-minded about surfing as he is. Or nearly. They have "real jobs": Boone works as a PI just enough to keep himself in fish tacos, and in the water whenever the waves are "epic macking crunchy...

Robert Pendleton is a chemical genius with a fertilizer worth a fortune to whoever controls the formula. Not surprisingly, the Bank, his notoriously exclusive backer, wants to keep an eye on its investment. But so does the CIA. And the Chinese government. And a few shadier organizations. So when...

Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty...

Nicholai Hel-genius, mystic, and the perfect formidable assassin returns in this blockbuster thriller from the #1 bestselling author of Shibumi. "Winslow imbues the James Bond-esque superspy atmosphere with a deep knowledge of Eastern cultures, including the ancient Japanese game of Go. There is...

Instant New York Times Bestseller! “The final shattering installment in a gangland trilogy to equal The Godfather. If you like Scarface and Goodfellas, this is where it’s at.” — Stephen King “City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it’s done. Winslow has saved the...

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. A quiet, peaceful existence. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor that could make him a fortune or kill him. 

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border), The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic new trilogy. “Superb. City on Fire is exhilarating.” – Stephen King ""Epic, ambitious, majestic, City on Fire is...

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...

Sechs neue Kriminalnovellen vom Meister amerikanischer Kriminalliteratur Der millionenschwere Kasinoraub ist schlicht nicht machbar. Und genau das macht ihn unwiderstehlich für einen Räuber, der für seinen Final Score den Rest seines Lebens im Gefängnis verbringen muss. Ein ehrgeiziger Collegejunge hat einen Nebenjob, bei dem er illegalen Schnaps an The Sunday List liefert, bis ein korrupter Cop, ein verführerischer Kunde und ein falscher Guru seine Träume zu beenden drohen. Zwei Klugscheißer erzählen sich beim Frühstück in einem Diner eine True Story .

Impossible de braquer un casino pour empocher plusieurs millions de dollars ? Impossible surtout de résister à l'envie de tenter le coup pour un voleur légendaire qui risque la prison à vie pour son Casse ultime. Deux gangsters racontent une histoire Véridique autour d'un petit déjeuner au diner. La star de cinéma toxico que le surfeur et détective privé Boone Daniels doit surveiller pendant sa Pause déjeuner pose problème.

'The best crime fiction I’ve read in twenty years. You’d think Winslow was mobbed up – it’s that good' Stephen King 'Don Winslow is my favorite crime fiction writer and THE FINAL SCORE is his best yet' James Patterson #1 internationally bestselling author Don Winslow – America’s King...