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George PelecanosHard Revolution March 15, Back Bay Books 2011 0316099422 / 9780316099424 Reprint Edition Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date* Hard Revolution is a rich, dramatic, totally engrossing story of two brothers—one a rookie police officer, one a recently returned Vietnam veteran—caught up in the chaos that engulfed D. C. in 1968, when riots followed the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Derek Strange is his family's straight arrow, but his older brother Dennis has always had a harder time. Home from the war and in several varieties of trouble, Dennis is in danger of making one bad decision too many. While Derek tries to be there for Dennis, no amount of brotherly love can save Dennis from Alvin Jones, a local drug dealer who draws him into his web. 9780316099424 0.00 Price:
23.95 AUD
George PelecanosHell to Pay February 16, 2011 Back Bay Books 2011 031609935X / 9780316099356 Reprint Edition Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date In Hell to Pay, Washington, D.C., is just one more thug in an endless list of thugs who brutalize the poor, the weak, and the young. The primary victim this time is a rising star on Derek Strange's Pee Wee football team. In this city where making T-shirts for bereaved families of young murder victims is a full-time business, the boy is an accidental victim in a war between drug dealers and lowlifes.
George PelecanosRight as Rain February 16, 2011 Back Bay Books 2011 0316099295 / 9780316099295 Reprint Edition Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date George Pelecanos is a screenwriter, an independent film producer, an award-winning journalist, and the author of nine novels set in and around Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and three children. 9780316099295 0.00 Price:
23.95 AUD
George PelecanosSoul Circus March 15, Back Bay Books 2011 0316099414 / 9780316099417 Reprint Edition Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date* George Pelecanos's Washington, D.C., is a place rife with high-living drug dealers, easily obtained guns, and a generation depleted by ignorance, excessive machismo, and misplaced trust in the equalizing power of violence. Yet PI Derek Strange "did love D.C.," as Pelecanos acknowledges in Soul Circus, his third novel (after Right as Rain and Hell to Pay) to feature this mid-50s black detective and his younger white partner, Terry Quinn. Strange's optimism may be running at even higher gear than normal here, following his marriage to his longtime secretary, Janine Baker, and his determination to be a good stepfather to her son.
Picking up where Hell to Pay left off, we find Strange working in Soul Circus on behalf of Granville Oliver, a manipulative black mobster charged with murder and racketeering, who faces the death penalty. To help his client knock that sentence down to life imprisonment, Strange will have to find a nail salon worker named Devra Stokes, who used to be the girlfriend of Phillip Wood, a former associate of Oliver's and now the prosecution's chief witness against him. Stokes had sworn out an abuse complaint against Wood, and might testify that he was behind at least one of the killings Oliver is said to have planned. But, fearing for her own safety and that of her young son, she wants no part of Oliver's defense. Meanwhile, Quinn--against his better judgment--helps a homely, unpredictable gangsta-wannabe, Mario "Twigs" Durham, locate his girlfriend, who supposedly went missing, but in fact skipped out with his drug stash. Even as the threads of this yarn come together amid a deadly gang conflict, Pelecanos stays focused on his characters--not only his intriguingly troubled sleuths, but also a deftly nuanced cop-turned-gun dealer, Ulysses Foreman. Buttressed by Pelecanos's street-slangy prose, Soul Circus delivers an un-blindered perspective on urban life (and death) that manages to be both frightening and hopeful. Not so unlike the city in which it's set. 9780316099417 0.00 Price:
23.95 AUD
George PelecanosThe Way Home January 13, 2011 Back Bay Books 2011 0316087335 / 9780316087339 Reprint Edition Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Day After Release date 9780316087339 0.00 Price:
23.95 AUD
