Danny Ryan Trilogy: Book 1
Publication Date: March 14, 2023
Two criminal empires together control all of New England.
Until a beautiful woman comes between the Irish and the Italians, launching a war that will see them kill each other, destroy an alliance, and set a city on fire.
Danny Ryan yearns for a more “legit” life and a place in the sun. But as the bloody conflict stacks body on body and brother turns against brother, Danny has to rise above himself. To save the friends he loves like family and the family he has sworn to protect, he becomes a leader, a ruthless strategist, and a master of a treacherous game in which the winners live and the losers die.
From the gritty streets of Providence to the glittering screens of Hollywood to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, two rival crime families ignite a war that will leave only one standing. The winner will forge a dynasty.
Enter the world of organized crime, where family means everything. Author Don Winslow delivers an action-packed first installment of a series in City on Fire.
The main character, Danny Ryan, has married into the Irish crime family. As the story begins, the author takes readers on vacation to Goshen Beach and provides the back story of how Danny met his wife, along with his tendency to be more of a follower than a leader.
The cast of characters rivals that of The Sopranos, with a tentative truce between the Italians and the Irish getting blown up over a woman. The bloody carnage that follows pits brother against brother and forces Danny to get involved.
The return of the mother who abandoned him as a child throws a wrench in the action, particularly as Danny and his wife are expecting their first child.
City on Fire highlights an intense saga of mobster life where alliances are made and broken, and brotherhood means everything.
Don Winslow is the author of twenty-five acclaimed, award-winning international bestsellers, including seven New York Times bestsellers (Savages, The Kings of Cool, The Cartel, The Force, The Border, City on Fire and City of Dreams). 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. Winslow’s epic Cartel trilogy has been adapted for TV and will appear as a weekly series on FX. Additional Winslow books are currently in development at Paramount (The Winter of Frankie Machine), Netflix (Boone Daniels), Warner Brothers (Satori), Sony (City on Fire, City of Dreams, City in Ruins) and Working Title (“Crime 101”) and he has recently written a series of acclaimed and award winning short stories for Audible narrated by four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris. A former investigator, anti-terrorist trainer and trial consultant, Winslow has announced that City in Ruins will be his final novel.
