The Wars of the Roses played out with New York City cops and robbers.It's a weird thing when you first realize it, brilliant and almost subversive as you watch it play out across the pages. He's clever enough to get away with what is essentially a double prologue (in a universe where, most times, one is too many), but his best trick is a buried, pulsing, live-wire second plot that hums just beneath the surface of the first: The Force is basically Game of Thrones without the dragons. He's smart enough to be tricky without looking like he's being tricky. An instant classic, an epic, a goddamn Wagner opera with a full cast and buckets of blood and smack and Jameson whiskey. Like can't-put-it-down, can't-get-the-voices-out-of-your-head fantastic. Trust me when I tell you that you gotta read this book not because it's beautiful (it isn't) and not because Winslow is a virtuoso stylist (he isn't) and not because it's one of those Important Books that everyone will be talking about (they will), but because it is just fantastic.
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