{"product_id":"city-in-ruins","title":"City in Ruins RUC","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Winslow's the best' Stephen King\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDanny Ryan is rich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond his wildest dreams rich.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLife is good.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut then Danny reaches too far.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDanny 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo save his life and everything he loves, Danny must become the ruthless fighter he once was - and never wanted to be again.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRanging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'City in Ruins is Don Winslow showing the rest of us how it's done. The novel builds and builds, the drama, the suspense, our feelings for the central characters - and then everything comes together. Actually, everything explodes. It's a beautiful, artful thing.' James Patterson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'An addictive finale ... Winslow's ambitious narrative culminates with an exhilarating climax that beautifully wraps up the series' many plot threads. It's a fitting swan song from a giant of crime fiction.' Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'With the Danny Ryan trilogy, Winslow seems destined to claim a place beside Mario Puzo's The Godfather on the Mount Rushmore of American crime fiction.' Associated Press\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43583074828485,"sku":"","price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/City_20in_20Ruins.jpg?v=1716622924","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/city-in-ruins","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}