“The best crime fiction I've read in twenty years.” — Stephen King #1 New York Times
bestselling author "A masterpiece....Don Winslow remains one of my all-time favorite
writers." —James Patterson #1 New York Times bestselling author #1 internationally
bestselling author Don Winslow — America’s King of Crime Fiction — is back and he’s better than
ever. The trademark literary style trenchant wit and incisive characterization that have
made Don Winslow a repeat New York Times bestselling author and “America’s greatest living
crime writer” ( Providence Journal ) are on brilliant display in this new book sure to delight
Winslow’s most devoted fans and first-time readers. The multi-million-dollar casino heist is
impossible—it can’t be done. That’s what makes it irresistible to a legendary robber facing the
rest of his life in prison for his “ Final Score. ” An ambitious hard-working college-bound
teenager has a side job delivering illegal booze to “ The Sunday List ” until a crooked cop a
seductive customer and a fake guru threaten to end his dreams. Two wise guys tell each other a
“ True Story” over breakfast at a diner. It’s all bullshit and laughs until someone else has to
pick up the check. An otherwise honest patrolman has to make an excruciating choice between his
loyalty to the job and his love for a ne’er-do-well cousin in “The North Wing.” The entitled
substance-addicted movie star that surfer PI Boone Daniels and his crew are hired to babysit in
“ The Lunch Break” is a problem . She also has a problem—someone wants her dead. Finally the
one terrible momentary mistake that a devoted family man makes sends him to prison and on a “
Collision” course between the man he wants to be and the killer he’s forced to become to
survive. With a foreword written by award-winning crime author Reed Farrel Coleman The Final
Score is a propulsive perceptive and deeply immersive book of crime writing — the ultimate
testament to Don Winslow's prowess as a living legend of the genre.
