The book ‘City on Fire’ is written by Don Winslow. ‘City on Fire’ is the 1st novel in an epic crime saga about the Irish and Italian crime syndicates in America during the 1980s and 1990s. The story is set in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1986, the story comes about twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ryan, a hard-working longshoreman and occasional ‘muscle’ for the Irish crime syndicate.