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Be warned: once you sink your teeth into Pelecanos, it may be hard to be satiated.
This violent, explosive, page-turning crime fiction centers around Washington D.C. The city is a startlingly realistic motif throughout this book and others in the four-book series. Pelecanos has you hearing the footsteps in the dark D.C. alley, the smells of a nervous, sweating drug dealer awaiting his minions.
The characters Pelecanos conjures up - they are as real to me as people I'm acquainted with. You can't help but get pulled in by the interweaving story lines, the author's narrative genius, and the palpably pulsing plot that demands you'd don't put it down.
If not already, one day this book will be a classic.
This violent, explosive, page-turning crime fiction centers around Washington D.C. The city is a startlingly realistic motif throughout this book and others in the four-book series. Pelecanos has you hearing the footsteps in the dark D.C. alley, the smells of a nervous, sweating drug dealer awaiting his minions.
The characters Pelecanos conjures up - they are as real to me as people I'm acquainted with. You can't help but get pulled in by the interweaving story lines, the author's narrative genius, and the palpably pulsing plot that demands you'd don't put it down.
If not already, one day this book will be a classic.
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Another "hard-boiled" Pelecanos 'D.C' crime novel. Really captures part of the '70s post Vietnam culture. Love the early looks at key characters, Marcus Clay and Dimitri Karas. Lots of great references for the rock/soul/funk audiophile too.
