City on Fire

City on Fire

2021 • 400 pages

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Average rating3.9

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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 crime saga about the Irish and Italian crime syndicates in America during the 1980s and 1990s. "One of America's greatest storytellers." - Stephen King Providence, RI, 1986. Twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan is a hard-working longshoreman, loving husband, loyal friend, and occasional "muscle" for the Irish crime syndicate that oversees much of the city. He yearns for something more and dreams of starting over fresh, someplace far away. But when a modern-day Helen of Troy triggers a war between rival mob factions, Danny is embroiled in a conflict he can't escape. Now it is up to him to step into the breach to protect his family, the friends who are closer to him than brothers, and the only home he's ever known. Exploring classic themes of loyalty, betrayal, honor, and corruption on both sides of the law, City on Fire is a contemporary Iliad from Don Winslow, "America's greatest living crime writer" (Jon Land, Providence Journal).

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3 primary books

Danny Ryan

Danny Ryan is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2021 with contributions by Don Winslow.

City on Fire
City of Dreams
City in Ruins

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February 11, 2023

Ripped through this in two days. Haven't done that since the Harry Potter days. Snappy, pounding narrative that slaps you around like gabagool

November 9, 2023