Broken

'You can't ask for more emotionally moving entertainment' Stephen KingDon Winslow's acclaimed fiction collection featuring 'Crime 101' the upcoming major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, and Monica Barbaro.A riveting collection of original fiction from the revered #1 international bestselling author of The Cartel trilogy and The Force 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 and richly drawn, these characters - some familiar, others new - are lost souls driving without headlights on the dark highway of modern America. Set in New Orleans and Hawaii, Southern California and south Texas, each story in this collection is distinctively Winslow, shaped by his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, drama, and consummate literary craftsmanship.A powerful, gripping collection of tales that will become classics of crime fiction, Broken is Don Winslow at his nerve-shattering, heartbreaking best. "A master of thrills shows his range, and his bite . . . [Winslow is] a writer from whom others can learn the ropes." New York Times Praise for Don Winslow 'A huge, immersive, violent, compassionate read' Ian Rankin 'He's a master' Michael Connelly 'One of the great literary achievements of the century so far' Daily Telegraph 'Such crime writing deserves nothing less than a Pulitzer Prize' Evening Standard 'A new crime classic ... a stirring, stupendous novel' Sunday Times 'He is a pleasure to read' The Times 'Brutal and brilliant, this is crime's Game of Thrones' Sun 'A furious, impassioned novel' Washington Post 'Devastating and timely ... a hybrid The Godfather and War and Peace' New York Times

Don Winslow is the author of twenty-six acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including eight New York Times bestsellers (Savages, The Kings of Cool, The Cartel, The Force, The Border, City on Fire,City of Dreamsand City in Ruins). Savages was made into a feature film by three-time Oscar-winning writer-director Oliver Stone from a screenplay by Shane Salerno, Winslow and Stone. Crime 101, based on Winslow's short novel, will be released as a theatrical film from Amazon. He has also written a series of award-winning short stories for Audible narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow lives in California and Rhode Island.