I flipped through a Don Winslow book at the library one time. It’s about dirty cops so I thought it might be somewhat leftish for a crime novel. Nope. Motherfucker dedicated the novel to every cop who had died while he was writing it, and listed them by name.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/08/don-winslow-the-force-new-york-police-department

This interview is classic “I’m as left as they come, but . . .”