Sunday, July 07, 2019

A “Force” to be Reckoned With

Don Winslow’s The Force—one of my favorite novels of 2017—has won this year’s Falcon Award, presented by Japan’s Maltese Falcon Society to a superior work of hard-boiled crime fiction. It’s far from Winslow’s first such victory; as The Gumshoe Site explains, this “is his fifth Falcon Award following [those given for] Missing: New York (no English version), The Winter of Frankie Machine, The Power of the Dog, and A Cool Breeze on the Underground.”

Other previous Falcon recipients include Robert Crais (The Promise), Dennis Lehane (Live by Night), S.J. Rozan (Winter and Night), and Stephen Greenleaf (Book Case).

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