City of Dreams: Don Winslow

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Danny Ryan, a young widower and mob underboss, has left the East Coast and settled in California with his young son in tow. Now, the New England Mafia, the FBI and the police are out to get him — one FBI subdirector, in particular, “wants Ryan delivered like KFC. All sorts of folks are scratching each other’s backs, while others are doing the opposite, seeing who they can double cross. I., Italian mob, sets in motion a risky plan, in bestseller Winslow’s powerful sequel to 2022’s City on Fire.

The Morettis and their crew beat the living crap out of Liam and, when Pam still mesmerized by Liam’s boyish charms, visited him in the hospital, war broke out, a war to end all wars, that like the Trojan War would leave everyone from victor to loser broken and destroyed. In the end, there is nowhere for any of these guys to turn because the old life is gone and the walls are all closing in on them. If I had been reading this, I would have been highlighting phrases for the sheer poetry combined with spot on accuracy.

There’s betrayal and greed at every turn and a fair amount of violence, all masterfully managed by Winslow.

As their worlds collide in an explosion that could destroy them both, Danny Ryan has to fight for his life in a city where dreams are born. I fell in love with Don Winslow's books last year and adored the first book in this series, CITY ON FIRE. Michaelides takes a literary turn in his latest novel, employing an unreliable narrator, the structure of classical drama, and a self-conscious eye to dismantling the locked-room mystery. Does Danny have the resolve to stay the course and avoid unwanted attention in the spotlight that could mean disaster for him and everyone around him, or will the temptation of his new love and lifestyle prove too difficult to let go of for the good of all who rely on his decisions?When they make their love public Danny live is in danger as the paparazzi take pictures of him and his new love interest and put them in a tabloid. Best books of 2022: See our picks for the 23 books to read this summer or dive into your favorite genre. But the book really heats up when two of his crew realize a movie is being made about their lives in Providence. We learn about Kate’s possibly stalling career and Leo’s plan to apply to acting schools against his mother’s wishes. He and a few buddies steal millions of dollars’ worth of the Morettis’ heroin, which he dumps into the ocean.