'The Force' Is Basically 'Game Of Thrones' With Cops — And That's Pretty Great
Don Winslow's new novel is packed with crooked cops and crookeder crooks, all defending their territories and trying to maintain a status quo where everyone earns, everyone eats and no wars break out.
by Jason Sheehan
Jun 24, 2017
3 minutes
"How do you cross the line? Step by step."
Internal monologue is a staple in cop books. There are rules, things you do and things you don't, and if the cop in your cop book can't talk to himself in his own head, how are the readers going to know that he's tortured? That he's a good man going bad (or a bad man going worse)? That he has hopes and dreams that extend beyond these streets and the barrel of this gun?
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