Final Score (2026)

The Final Score is an intense, deeply felt and gripping collection of six all-new, previously unpublished short novels by Don Winslow, the internationally bestselling author acclaimed as America's King of Crime Fiction. Written in his trademark literary style, with trenchant wit and incisive characterization, these stories are sure to delight devoted fans and first-time readers alike. A multi-million-dollar casino heist is impossible, which makes it irresistible to a legendary robber facing the rest of his life in prison for his Final Score. An ambitious, hard-working teenager bound for college delivers illegal booze in The Sunday List, until a crooked cop, a seductive customer and a fake guru threaten his dreams. Two wise guys tell each other a True Story over breakfast at a diner, with laughs and lies until someone else has to pick up the check. In The North Wing, an otherwise honest patrolman must choose between loyalty to his job and love for a ne'er-do-well cousin. In The Lunch Break, surfer and private investigator Boone Daniels and his crew are hired to babysit an entitled, substance-addicted movie star who is also the target of someone who wants her dead. Finally, in Collision, one terrible momentary mistake sends a devoted family man to prison and sets him on a course between the man he wants to be and the killer he must become to survive. With a foreword by award-winning crime author Reed Farrel Coleman, The Final Score is a propulsive, perceptive and deeply immersive collection of crime writing.