Don Winslow Books in Order

This collection gathers six new crime novellas, including an aging thief's impossible last casino robbery, a secret Sunday liquor route, a cop torn between duty and family, mobsters trading tall tales, a dangerous babysitting job for Boone Daniels, and one man's prison yard transformation.

In 1970 a group of inseparable teens in a fading Rhode Island fishing town devise a plan to dodge the draft. They will sell some grass, save cash and vanish west to start a commune, only to find friendship and ideals tested at every turn.

Doug, a timid accountant who lives for dawn surf sessions, is pushed too far by a bullying surfer and his contemptuous wife. Nursing his humiliation, he turns a stand up comedy night into a razor sharp act of payback that finally lets him stand tall.

In sweltering 1970s New York, alcoholic detective Dietrich is handed what should be a throwaway case: a murdered homeless man no one cares about during the Son of Sam panic. Following the trail harder than expected, he collides with a ruthless neighborhood crime boss.

Now a casino owner in Las Vegas, Danny Ryan appears to have left his criminal past behind. As old enemies, federal investigators and business rivals converge, he faces a final reckoning over what he did to survive and what kind of man he wants to be.

On the run after the Rhode Island war, Danny Ryan lands in California with his father and young son, trying to turn dirty money into a clean future. Hollywood temptations, a dangerous romance and a high stakes heist pull him back toward violence and exposure.

Hiding near San Diego under a new name, a big city accountant nicknamed the Heron tries to stay invisible after vanishing with millions from a dangerous client. When a hit man finally tracks him down, a tense, darkly comic duel of wits begins.

San Diego surfer Billy prides himself on living entirely off freebies, from hotel buffets to beach showers. Falling for a wealthy woman at an art opening forces him to fake a respectable life, then decide whether freedom or love matters more.

In a quiet Rhode Island surf town, a compulsive gambler and his best friend hatch a risky scheme to erase debts. Their plan tangles romance, small town gossip and hidden loyalties, leading to a reckoning in the place locals call the Deep Hole.

In mid 1980s Providence, Irish dockworker Danny Ryan is tied to his in laws' criminal crew and a fragile peace with the Italian mob. A reckless insult at a beach party shatters the truce, dragging Danny into a brutal gang war he never wanted.

Broken gathers six crime novellas: a New Orleans cop family bent on revenge, a cat and mouse jewel heist, a cop chasing an armed chimp, two surf soaked tales, and a border agent trying to reunite a caged child with her mother.

Art Keller, now at the top of the DEA, confronts splintered cartels, an American heroin and fentanyl epidemic, and a compromised government as his decades long war with Adán Barrera spills from Mexico into Wall Street, migrant camps and a vicious presidential campaign.

Denny Malone, the charismatic leader of an elite NYPD unit in Manhattan North, has spent years bending rules, skimming drug money and cutting dirty deals. When a federal sting exposes him, he must decide whom to betray to keep his family and himself alive.

Now a specialist in impossible disappearances, Frank Decker is asked by a billionaire war buddy to find his missing wife. The trail runs from Florida's luxury towers to German escort agencies and Ukrainian mobsters, forcing Decker to question how far loyalty should go.

Years after locking cartel boss Adán Barrera in a United States prison, burned out ex DEA agent Art Keller is hiding out as a beekeeper. When Barrera escapes and Mexico erupts into rival cartel wars, Keller is drawn into a decade long, cross continental struggle to stop him.

Lincoln, Nebraska detective Frank Decker becomes obsessed with finding five year old Hailey Hansen after she vanishes from her yard. When the official search stalls, he quits the force and spends a year chasing faint leads all the way to elite New York circles.

Set before Savages, The Kings of Cool traces how Ben, Chon and O slid into the marijuana trade, cutting between their laid back present and their parents' tangled history with dealers and dirty cops in 1960s and 1970s Southern California.

In this companion to the classic thriller Shibumi, master assassin Nicholai Hel is released from postwar confinement on one condition. He must undertake a near suicidal mission in 1950s Asia to kill a powerful arms dealer, navigating double agents, geishas and shifting loyalties.

Best friends Ben and Chon run an ultra high grade marijuana operation in Laguna Beach and share an unconventional relationship with their friend O. When a Mexican cartel kidnaps her to force a partnership, the pair wage a reckless, inventive war to get her back.

When beloved surf legend Kelly Kuhio is murdered, the Pacific Beach community turns on the young punk accused of killing him. Boone Daniels agrees to help the defense, digging into real estate schemes and old grudges even as his own friends call him a traitor.

Boone Daniels, a surf obsessed ex cop turned private investigator in San Diego, takes a routine insurance case looking for a missing witness. The search leads to a brutal child exploitation ring and a tragedy from his past, forcing him to choose between waves and responsibility.

Frank Machianno is a retired San Diego hitman who now runs a bait shop, juggles odd jobs and dotes on his daughter. When a supposed favor lures him into a meeting that is really a hit, he must revisit old scores to learn who wants him dead.

Spanning three decades, The Power of the Dog follows DEA agent Art Keller, cartel heir Adán Barrera, high class escort Nora Hayden and New York hitman Sean Callan as the United States declares war on drugs and blurs the line between policy, profit and blood.

This nonfiction book follows Vietnam War Medal of Honor recipient Joe Ronnie Hooper, tracing his fierce combat record, complicated personal life and postwar struggles to show how one soldier's story mirrors the wider promises and failures of America's war in Southeast Asia.

Jack Wade, once a star arson investigator and now an insurance claims man, is called to a fatal house fire at a real estate mogul's mansion. The evidence suggests murder, pulling Jack into a web of Russian mobsters, fraud and Southern California corruption.

Small time criminal Tim Kearney escapes a life sentence by impersonating legendary surfer smuggler Bobby Z for a risky DEA prisoner swap. When the deal collapses, Tim flees into the desert with Bobby's lover and young son, hunted by bikers, agents and cartel killers.

Neal Carey is sent to escort aging Catskills comic Natty Silver from Las Vegas back to Palm Springs, only to discover Natty witnessed a crime and is running for his life, turning a desert road trip into a chase across casinos and back roads.

In late 1950s Manhattan, ex CIA operative turned private investigator Walter Withers takes what seems like easy work guarding a rising senator's glamorous girlfriend. When she turns up dead, he becomes the prime suspect and must face his old agency and Hoover's FBI to survive.

Neal Carey's latest assignment sounds simple: hide brash Brooklyn witness Polly Paget and turn her into someone the public will believe when she accuses America's favorite television family man of rape, while the mob, tabloids and hired killers race to find her first.

Fresh from years hiding in a Chinese monastery, Neal Carey goes undercover as a ranch hand in Nevada to infiltrate a white supremacist church and find a kidnapped toddler, forcing him to choose between the people who trust him and the job he owes.

Neal Carey is ordered to track down a brilliant chemist who has vanished from a San Francisco conference with a mysterious Chinese lover, a search that drags him through Chinatown, Hong Kong's walled city and Chinese politics where every faction wants the formula.

Graduate student and former street kid Neal Carey is pulled out of his quiet life when his secret employers send him to 1970s London to find a senator's runaway, drug addicted daughter hiding in the city's punk underground before scandal explodes.