PELECANOS GEORGE

(P/B) THE SWEET FOREVER
It's 1986 and Washington DC is being torn apart by the cocaine trade. The Mayor is too busy chasing coke and hookers to care, and the police force is manned by corrupt rednecks like Richard'King'Tutt. Down in the neighborhoods, black children are shooting each other over nickel bags and the outside world just doesn't care. The only man prepared to do anything about it is Marcus Clay whose new record store - Real Right Records - is in the heart of the ghetto. Business is okay. What isn't okay is that his wife has thrown him out and his best...
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(P/B) RIGHT AS RAIN
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous police force. As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city's flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HELL TO PAY
Set in darkest, downtown Washington, Hell to Pay begins with Quinn and Strange dealing with the usual detritus of the world's most violent city - a bent cop and a missing teenage-girl-turned-hooker - but then a senseless death on a sunny afternoon shakes even Derek Strange's existence. A victim shot down by bullets meant for another; a tragic accident that strikes just too close to home. Strange's grief is all-consuming and he swears to track down and destroy the killers - ghetto style. But as he throws himself deeper and deeper into the h...
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(P/B) WHAT IT WAS
Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank 'Hound Dog' Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name ...
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(P/B) SHOEDOG
Constantine is a drifter with a lot of miles behind him, a lot more ahead and plenty of jobs in between that never showed up on anyone's books. Back in his home town, he hitches a ride on a bright spring morning with a little man named Polk. There's one stop Polk needs to make, and it changes Constantine's life forever. Like the kind of cars they don't make anymore and the kind of songs they don't sing,Shoedog has the style, rhythm and muscle of a classic. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) A FIRING OFFENSE
The first in the Nick Stefanos trilogy from one of the acclaimed writers of THE WIRE. Advertising director Nick Stefanos is well acquainted with the seedy side of the electronics business - blow-out sales and shady deals were his life on the shop floor. So when a stockboy disappears, it's not news. Just another metalhead off chasing a dream of big money and easy living. But the boy's grandfather asks Nick for help, and as Nick starts digging, he quickly uncovers a much darker and more violent truth. One that will lead him to the alcohol-so...
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(P/B) SOUL CIRCUS
Private Investigator Derek Strange and his partner, Terry Quinn, are running a PI business in the seedy underbelly of Washington DC are approached by a young man asking them to find his girlfriend who has gone missing. And so Strange and Quinn find her. Just another day? Not quite. In the grimy underworld inhabited by Strange, nothing is that simple. For Strange and Quinn's efforts have led to a young mother being brutally murdered - a devastating discovery that causes them both to question the morality by which they live. And yet at the s...
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(P/B) THE WAY HOME
Hidden beneath the floorboards in a house he's remodeling, Christopher Flynn discovers something very tempting-and troubling. Summoning every bit of maturity and every lesson he's learned the hard way, Chris leaves what he found where he found it and tells his job partner to forget it, too. Knowing trouble when he sees it-and walking the other way-is a habit Chris is still learning. Chris's father, Thomas Flynn, runs the family business where Chris and his friends have found work. Thomas is just getting comfortable with the idea that his s...
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(P/B) THE BIG BLOWDOWN
Washington DC, 1946. For two local young men, Pete Karras and Joey Recevo, the easiest way to find work after the war is by providing a little muscle for a local boss who runs a protection racket with the Mafia. The trouble with Pete Karras is that he is just too soft on his fellow immigrants, and the last thing the boss wants is for his mob to get soft. The boys have to teach Karras a painful lesson that he won't forget. Three years later Pete and Joey meet up once more and a final confrontation puts the meaning of friendship and honour t...
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(P/B) DRAMA CITY
Lorenzo Brown is fresh out of the clink. The former drug enforcer has vowed to go straight and found himself a job as an officer for the Humane Society. He patrols downtown DC looking for ill-treated pets - but in the course of his day repeatedly comes face-to-face with his old life. Rachel Lopez is an attractive young probation officer. Brown is one of her clients but also fast becoming one of her friends - perhaps he is one that can be saved. Nigel Johnson is a smart young drug-dealer on the make. He has plans to make a lot of money AND ...
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Η ΣΑΡΩΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΡΗΞΗ
Ο Τζόι Ριτσέβο και ο Πιτ Καράς, δύο παιδιά που μεγάλωσαν σε μια από τις πιο σκληρές γειτονιές της Ουάσινγκτον, προκειμένου να βρούν δουλειά μετά τον πόλεμο, στράφηκαν στο οργανωμένο έγκλημα, προσφέροντας τις υπηρεσίες τους σ' ένα από τα επίδοξα «αφεντικά» της περιοχής. Όμως ο Καράς είναι ελαστικός με τους μετανάστες από την πατρίδα του και, επειδή το «αφεντικό» δεν μπορεί να αφήσει τη συμμορία να γίνει μαλθακή, ένας «δικός» του δίνει στον Καράς ένα οδυνηρό μάθημα. Τρία χρόνια αργότερα, η ίδια συμμορία αποφασίζει πως το εστιατόριο του Νικ Σ...
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DRAMA CITY
Ο Λορέντζο Μπράουν αγαπάει αυτό που κάνει. Δουλεύει στο φιλοζωικό οργανισμό Humane Society και περιπολεί στους δρόμους της Ουάσινγκτον για να εντοπίσει κακοποιημένα σκυλιά. Είναι υπερήφανος για το έργο που επιτελεί, κι αυτή η υπερηφάνεια τον κρατάει να μην ξανακυλήσει στο εύκολο χρήμα και στις παράνομες δραστηριότητες που του κόστισαν χρόνια στη φυλακή. Και η Ρέιτσελ Λόπες αγαπάει αυτό που κάνει. Την ημέρα είναι αστυνομικός-επιτηρήτρια και βοηθάει ανθρώπους - μεταξύ των οποίων και το Λορέντζο- να βρουν το δρόμο τους, να προχωρήσουν στη ζωή...
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Ο ΚΗΠΟΥΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΝΥΧΤΑΣ
Πριν από είκοσι χρόνια, δύο νεαροί μπάτσοι παρακολουθούσαν τον Τι Σι Κουκ, αρχιφύλακα δεινό στις έρευνες, να εργάζεται στον τόπο ενός εγκλήματος σ’ έναν εξαθλιωμένο δημοτικό κήπο σε βίαιη γειτονιά της Ουάσινγκτον. Σήμερα, ο αγώνας δρόμου των μεσιτικών γραφείων δεν έχει επιφέρει πολλές αλλαγές σ’ αυτές τις γειτονιές - και στον ίδιο αυτό κήπο, μέσα στο ίδιο κομφούζιο, ο δολοφόνος έχει αφήσει πίσω του ένα πτώμα και στοιχεία τα οποία οι τρεις άντρες αμέσως αναγνωρίζουν. Ο Τι Σι Κουκ, συνταξιούχος πλέον, που τον στοιχειώνει ακόμα η υπόθεση που ...
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ΣΤΟΥΣ ΔΡΟΜΟΥΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΙΑΣ
Ο ιδιωτικός ντετέκτιβ Ντέρεκ Στρέιντζ και ο συνεργάτης του, Τέρι Κουίν, αναλαμβάνουν να βρουν την Τζένιφερ, ένα δεκατετράχρονο κορίτσι που το έχει σκάσει από το σπίτι του. Ο Στρέιντζ και ο Κουίν δε θα δυσκολευτούν να ανακαλύψουν ότι η Τζένιφερ έχει μπλεχτεί στα γρανάζια της πορνείας και εκδίδεται σε μια από τις πιο κακόφημες περιοχές της Ουάσινγκτον. Οι δυο πρώην αστυνομικοί είναι βέβαιοι ότι γνωρίζουν καλά τους κανόνες του παιχνιδιού στον κόσμο των "δρόμων". . . Τίποτα, όμως, δε θα μπορούσε να τους προετοιμάσει για τη σκληρή εκδίκηση του ...
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(P/B) DOWN BY THE RIVER WHERE THE DEAD MEN GO
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(P/B) THREE GREAT NOVELS
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