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Violence
A lot
Significant organized crime violence; deaths that carry weight from earlier volumes
Language
A lot
Very strong language in Winslow's crime fiction register
Sexual Content
Some
Some adult content
Substance Use
Some
Heavy drinking; drug trade depicted throughout
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The impossibility of fully escaping the life you came from; the cost of protection and what it does to the person doing the protecting
What this book is about
Danny Ryan has finally gone legitimate — a Las Vegas hotel and casino developer, respectable, a father doing everything right. But the people he escaped from don't stay escaped from. Don Winslow's concluding volume of the Danny Ryan trilogy (following City on Fire and City of Dreams) brings the Irish mob saga to its end. Winslow writes crime the way Greek tragedians wrote tragedy — with the sense that the structure of the story demands a certain kind of ending, and that the ending will cost everyone something irreplaceable.
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finale of a trilogy — best read after City on Fire and City of Dreams
graphic violence and language
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