Danny Ryan Trilogy: Book 3
Publication Date: April 2, 2024
Following City on Fire and City of Dreams, City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow’s epic, genre-defining crime trilogy and the final book of Winslow’s extraordinary career.
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.
Danny Ryan is rich.
Beyond his wildest dreams rich.
The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman – a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with.
Life is good.
But then Danny reaches too far.
When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort, he triggers a war against Las Vegas power brokers, a powerful FBI agent bent on revenge and a rival casino owner with dark connections of his own.
Danny thought he had buried his past, but now it reaches up to him from the grave to pull him down. Old enemies surface, and when they come for Danny they vow to take everything – not only his empire, not just his life, but all that he holds dear, including his son.
To save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was – and never wanted to be again.
Ranging from the gritty back rooms of Providence, RI to the power corridors of Washington, DC and Wall Street to the golden casinos of Las Vegas, City in Ruins is an epic crime novel of love and hate, ambition and desperation, vengeance and compassion.
Danny Ryan escaped a mafia war, seeking a new life for his family. He built an empire, but the ghosts of the past threaten to destroy everything and everyone.
While serving as the exhilarating conclusion of an epic crime trilogy, City in Ruins also marks the final novel for the author. Author Don Winslow pulls out all the stops with this installment, leveraging all of his skills to complete a project nearly 30 years in the making.
For readers new to the series, it is recommended to read City on Fire and City of Dreams first in order to fully understand the characters and their backstories.
As the main character, Danny has moved away from the hard-scrabble early days to create a new chapter filled with money and influence courtesy of his status in Las Vegas. The latest set of challenges forces him to breathe life into a part of him he never wanted to resurface.
It’s a story packed with all the themes brought to life in the earlier installments, including love and hate, honor, and revenge. Danny faces the toughest fight of his life as he once again walks on the dark side in order to save those he loves.
City in Ruins delivers a powerful conclusion to a crime series featuring strong characters, well-crafted plot lines, and a premise that will grab your attention from the beginning.
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.
