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Shame The Devil
by George Pelecanos'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' STEPHEN KINGWashington, D.C., 1995. What should have been a straightforward restaurant robbery goes horribly wrong. Several workers are shot in cold blood; the gunman's brother is killed by the police; a young boy is run over by a careering getaway car.Three years pass. Victims and their relatives gather in the aftermath, still trying to come to terms with their grief. But gunman Frank Farrow has other ideas. Now the heat has died down, he is on his way back to Washington, determined to avenge his lost brother - by killing everyone involved in his death.
Soul Circus
by George PelecanosA young woman is brutally murdered and PIs Strange and Quinn are forced to confront their own part in the crime.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 same time they need to continue the search for another missing girl, a teenage runaway who shows up in a porn video. And who hasn't been seen since. Bleak, gritty and moving, SOUL CIRCUS superbly brings to life the devastating story of life and death in Washington's black ghettos.
The Cut
by George PelecanosThe first in a stunning action-packed series from one of the writers of THE WIRE.Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is 40%. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas's speciality hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It's the biggest job Lucas has ever been offered, and he quickly gets a sense of what's going on. But before he can close in he tangles with a world of men whose amorality and violence leave him reeling. Is any cut worth your family, your lover, your life?
The Cut (Spero Lucas Series #1)
by George PelecanosExclusively available in this e-book edition of The Cut: a bonus work of short fiction by George Pelecanos entitled Chosen that focuses on Spero Lucas's early life and family. Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defense attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is forty percent. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas's specialty hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It's the biggest job Lucas has ever been offered, and he quickly gets a sense of what's going on. But before he can close in on what's been taken, he tangles with a world of men whose amorality and violence leave him reeling. Is any cut worth your family, your lover, your life? Spero Lucas is George Pelecanos's greatest creation, a young man making his place in the world one battle and one mission at a time. The first in a new series of thrillers featuring Spero Lucas, The Cut is the latest confirmation of why George Pelecanos is "perhaps America's greatest living crime writer." (Stephen King)
The Double (Spero Lucas Ser.)
by George PelecanosThe second novel featuring Spero Lucas, a young Iraq vet working as a PI in Washington DC but with a sideline in finding lost items – the kind of items the owners can’t go to the police about. This time Spero is trying to find a painting belonging to a sexy young woman who was scammed out of it by a super-smooth con artist, part of a team of ruthless thugs. Spero tracks the painting down but the woman is brutally attacked to warn him off.
The Man Who Came Uptown
by George PelecanosMichael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman named Anna who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael's trial. Outside, Michael encounters a Washington, D.C. that has changed a lot during his time locked up. Once shady storefronts are now trendy beer gardens and flower shops. But what hasn't changed is the hard choice between the temptation of crime and doing what's right. Trying to balance his new job, his love of reading, and the debt he owes to the man who got him released, Michael struggles to figure out his place in this new world before he loses control. Smart and fast-paced, The Man Who Came Uptown brings Washington, D.C. to life in a high-stakes story of tough choices.
The Man Who Came Uptown: One of The Times ‘Best Crime Novels of the Decade'
by George PelecanosAnna Byrne is a jailhouse librarian. Most days, she loves her job and shares the life-affirming power of books to people who would have no hope without them. Often, she can get too close and forget some of these men are dangerous criminals.But some of them never had a chance. Like Michael Hudson, who's been locked up awaiting trial before his sudden release. He's happy and relieved but can't shake the question preying on his mind: how comes the witness who put him behind bars is suddenly refusing to testify?There's a man who might have the answer, but he wants something first. Phil Ornazian is a private investigator who moonlights as a petty criminal. He's not exactly proud of it, but times are hard in Washington D.C. People have to change to survive, or die trying.But everything comes at a price and, at some point, everyone has to pay...
The Man Who Came Uptown: One of The Times ‘Best Crime Novels of the Decade’
by George PelecanosFrom writer and producer on HBO's THE WIRE and THE DEUCE comes one of the most critically-acclaimed crime novels of the year:'He is, quite simply, among America's finest crime writers. This latest story does not disappoint ... lyrical, beautifully observed and constantly surprising, it is a delight' Daily Mail'In his first novel for five years, Pelecanos demonstrates why he deserves to be regarded as one of the best American crime novelists ... It's a moving tale, beautifully told' The Times* * * * *Anna Byrne is a jailhouse librarian. In a place where hope is hard to find, the power of books can be a light in the dark. For some of the prisoners, her work is life-changing.Like Michael Hudson, her best student, who's been locked up awaiting trial before his sudden release. He's relieved to be free - to 'come uptown', as they say - but can't shake the question: why is the witness who put him behind bars is suddenly refusing to testify? There's a man who might have the answer, but he wants something first. Phil Ornazian is a private investigator who moonlights as a petty criminal. He's not exactly proud of it, but times are hard in Washington, D.C. People have to change to survive, or die trying.But everything comes at a price and, at some point, everyone has to pay...* * * * *Praise for George Pelecanos: 'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' Stephen King 'Outstanding' Sunday Telegraph 'Powerful' Observer'American crime writing at its finest' Independent on Sunday'Terrific' Elmore Leonard 'Powerful' Michael Connelly 'I love the way he writes: economical, rhythmic, elliptical and angrily political' Val McDermid'Hard-boiled fiction with heart' Sunday Telegraph'Pelecanos has joined James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block at the high table of contemporary crime greats' The Times'The coolest writer in America' GQ 'Gold-standard character-driven crime writing that few will ever match' Financial Times
The Martini Shot and Other Stories
by George PelecanosFrom the writer of the HBO series Treme and The Wire comes a brand new collection of short storiesWhat really goes on beneath the surface of a city?There's the slum kid whose basketball skills earn him loyal friends and bitter rivals. The police informant grappling with his own sick conscience. A helpless young drug dealer watches as violence seeps into the lives of those who he cares about. And a writer on a TV cop show who finds drama and reality are colliding much too close to home. Corruption, revenge, honour, sacrifice and the fight to survive.Dark, fast-paced and crackling with energy, these stories expose the violence and darkness on the streets of any city. Gritty and hard-hitting, THE MARTINI SHOT is Pelecanos at his very best.
The Martini Shot: A Novella and Stories
by George PelecanosShort stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script. By turns heartbreaking and humane, brutal and funny, these finely constructed tales expose the violence and striving beneath the surface of any city and within any human heart. Tough, sexy, fast-paced, and crackling with energy, The Martini Shot is Pelecanos at his very best.
The Night Gardener
by George PelecanosGus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide. His new case involves the death of a local D.C. teenager named Asa. The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone worked as a patrol cop 20 years earlier, when he and his partner, Dan "Doc" Holiday, assisted a legendary detective named T. C. Cook. The murders, all involving local teenagers with palindromic names, were never solved. The new case draws the three men together, re-igniting the love, regret, and anger that once burned between them.
The Night Gardener
by George PelecanosA great novel from one of America's finest literary crime writers...They never found the killer.All they knew, back in the winter of 1985, was that someone was taking teenagers, killing them and leaving their abused bodies in public parks. Three victims in all, with no link between them except a oddity of their names. They read the same back-to-front - Otto, Ava and lastly Eve. A lot has happened in the twenty years since. Detectives Gus Ramone and Dan Holiday - two of the leads on the case - have pursued very different paths. Gus has climbed to the heights of Detective Sergeant and built himself a reputation as a very good cop, whilst Dan has been drummed out of the force - his sleaze finally getting too much for his superiors. However, their paths are about to cross again. A boy named Asa - a close friend of Gus's teenage son - has been found in the public park, his skull shattered by gunfire. Now it seems that both men are once again in the path of this disturbed serial killer.THE NIGHT GARDENER is George Pelecanos's stunning crime thriller - the story of two very different men united by the maliciousness of a deadly attacker.
The Sweet Forever: A Novel
by George PelecanosOne of the 1990s' rising stars of crime fiction delivers a bold, brilliant tale of mystery, revenge, and survival in the 1980s, when cocaine and money ruled the city streets and even the good guys wanted a piece of the action.
The Turnaround
by George PelecanosOn a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war. A novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption, THE TURNAROUND is another compelling, highly charged novel from George Pelecanos, "the best crime novelist in America." -Oregonian
The Turnaround
by George PelecanosA brilliant novel from one of America's finest literary crime writers...On a hot summer afternoon in Washington DC 1972, three white teenagers, stoned and fearless, drive a stolen car into a rough, black neighbourhood. Taunting local black kids through the car window, they speed off to what they think is safety.They find themselves trapped in a dead-end street whilst an angry mob gathers. In the ensuing chaos, two of the white boys manage to escape, but Billy - the third friend - is shot dead.Thirty-five years later, one of these men reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. However, another survivor of that day is now out of prison, and is looking for reparation in any form he can find it . . .
The Way Home
by George PelecanosChristopher Flynn is trying to get it right. After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, he has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past. One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to resist. Chris does the right thing, but old habits and instincts rise to the surface, threatening this new-found stability with sudden treachery and violence. With his father and his most trusted friends, he takes one last chance to blast past the demons trying to pull him back. Like Richard Price or William Kennedy, Pelecanos pushes his characters to the extremes, their redemption that much sweeter because it is so hard fought. Pelecanos has long been celebrated for his unerring ability to portray the conflicts men feel as they search and struggle for power and love in a world that is often harsh and unforgiving but can ultimately be filled with beauty.
The Way Home
by George PelecanosHow far will a father go to save his son? A page-turning story of rebellion, greed, and the high price of a second chance from 'one of the finest crime writers in America' THE TIMES.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 son is grown, working, and on the right path at last. Then one day Chris doesn't show up for work-and his father knows deep in his bones that danger has found him. Although he wishes it weren't so, he also knows that no parent can protect a child from all the world's evils. Sometimes you have to let them find their own way home.
The Way Home
by George PelecanosHidden 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 son is grown, working, and on the right path at last. Then one day Chris doesn't show up for work-and his father knows deep in his bones that danger has found him. Although he wishes it weren't so, he also knows that no parent can protect a child from all the world's evils. Sometimes you have to let them find their own way home.Read by Dion Graham(p) 2010 Hachette Audio
What It Was
by George PelecanosA riveting crime novel from one of the writers of THE WIRE.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 that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way.Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.
What It Was (Derek Strange and Terry Quinn Series)
by George PelecanosWashington, 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 that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way.Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.
Storm
by George R. StewartA thrilling, innovative novel about the interplay between nature and humankind by the author of Names on the Land.With Storm, first published in 1941, George R. Stewart invented a new genre of fiction: the eco-novel. California has been plunged into drought throughout the summer and fall when a ship reports an unusual barometric reading from the far western Pacific. In San Francisco, a junior meteorologist in the Weather Bureau takes note of the anomaly and plots &“an incipient little whorl&” on the weather map, a developing storm, he suspects, that he privately dubs Maria. Stewart&’s novel tracks Maria&’s progress to and beyond the shores of the United States through the eyes of meteorologists, linemen, snowplow operators, a general, a couple of decamping lovebirds, and an unlucky owl, and the storm, surging and ebbing, will bring long-needed rain, flooded roads, deep snows, accidents, and death. Storm is an epic account of humanity&’s relationship to and dependence on the natural world.
Dansa amb dracs (Cançó de gel i foc #Volumen 5)
by George R.R. MartinEl cinquè volum de la sèrie «Cançó de gel i foc», l'obra èpica més gran de l'edat moderna.» El futur dels Set Regnes penja d'un fil... A l'est, la Daenerys, la darrera esciona de la Casa Targaryen, els dracs de la qual han assolit una monstruosa maduresa, governa com a reina d'una ciutat erigida sobre la pols i la mort, assetjada pels enemics. Ara que s'ha descobert el seu parador, són molts els que han sortit a l'encalç de la Daenerys i els seus dracs. Entre ells el nan, Tyrion Lannister, que ha aconseguit fugir de Port Reial amb preu al seu cap, erròniament condemnat a mort per l'assassinat del seu nebot, el rei Joffrey. Encara que no abans de matar el seu odiat pare, Lord Tywin. Al nord s'alça el gran Mur de gel i pedra -una estructura tan forta com aquells qui la vetllen. El fill bastard de l'Eddard Stark, en Jon Neu ha estat elegit 998è Lord Comandant de la Guàrdia de la Nit. Ara bé, té enemics tant a la Guàrdia com a l'altra banda del Mur, on els exèrcits esvalotats estan congregant-se per a un atac. A totes bandes revifen dolorosos conflictes, representats per una gran tria de bandolers i sacerdots, soldats i mudapells, nobles i esclaus. Els corrents del destí els duran inevitablement a la dansa més memorable de totes... Ressenyes:«En la gran tradició de la fantasia èpica, Martin és el millor amb diferència... és tens, abassegador i provoca insomni.»Time Magazine «Apassionant, emocionant... L'estil de Martin és tan intens que t'hi enganxes al cap de poques pàgines».The Times
El rag del armagedón
by George R.R. MartinDel autor número 1 en ventas de The New York Times, George R. R. Martin, llega la novela definitiva sobre revolución, rock and roll y asesinatos apocalípticos: una impresionante obra de ficción que retrata no sólo el fin de una era, sino también el fin del mundo como lo conocemos. El experiodista clandestino Sandy Blair ha forjado una exitosa trayectoria que comenzó con sus raíces radicales en los años 60, hasta que algo llama su atención inesperadamente: el extraño y brutal asesinato de un promotor de rock que ganó millones con una banda llamada Nazgûl. Ahora, cuando Sandy se dispone a investigar el crimen, se ve arrastrado a su propio pasado y empieza un recorrido mágico y misterioso por las pasiones reprimidas de su generación. Un nuevo mesías ha resucitado a los Nazgûl, su nuevo y alocado ritmo puede sermás de lo que nadie esperaba: un réquiem de demonismo, control mental y muerte,cuya melodía apocalíptica tal vez sólo Sandy pueda cambiar a tiempo... antes de que todos sigan el ritmo. Palabras de la crítica... “La mejor novela que he leído sobre la cultura de la música pop estadounidense de los años sesenta.” -Stephen King
Festí de corbs (Cançó de gel i foc #Volumen 4)
by George R.R. MartinEl quart volum de la sèrie «Cançó de gel i foc» ens transporta a un món bast, atractiu i perfectament enfilat que destaca com a gran obra mestra de la narrativa fantàstica. Els corbs lluitaran per la carn d'un mort, i es mataran entre ells pels seus ulls. Assedegats de sang, intrigants i assassins, els Lannister tenen el poder del Tron de Ferro en nom del rei nen Tommen. La guerra als Set Regnes s'ha extingit, però en els amargs dies de postguerra es desencadenen nous conflictes. Els Martell de Dorne i els Stark d'Hivèrnia busquen venjança pels seus morts. L'Euron Ull de Corb, el pirata més negre que ha desplegat mai una vela, torna de les runes fumejants de Valyria per reclamar les illes de Ferro. Des del gèlid nord, on els Altres posen en perill el Mur, l'aprenent de mestre Samwell Tarly porta un misteriós nadó a la Ciutadella. Amb un rerefons d'incest i fratricidi, alquímia i assassinat, la victòria serà per als homes i les dones que posseeixin l'acer més fred i el cor més fred. Ressenyes:«Una lectura absorbent i emocionant... l'estil de Martin és tan intens que t'hi quedes enganxat de seguida.»The Times «En la gran tradició de la fantasia èpica, Martin és el millor amb diferència... és tens, abassegador i provoca insomni.»Time Magazine
Tempesta d'espases (Cançó de gel i foc #Volumen 3)
by George R.R. MartinEn aquest tan esperat tercer llibre de «Cançó de gel i foc», George R.R. Martin continua la millor sèrie de fantasia que s'han escrit mai. La sang és més forta que els juraments. L'hivern s'acosta com una bèstia furiosa mentre els Set Regnes estan dividits per la revolta i les enemistats sagnants. Als erms del nord una horda de salvatges afamats, imbuïts de la màgia negra de les terres verges, es preparen per envair el Regne del Nord, on en Robb Stark porta una corona acabada de forjar. Però les defenses d'en Robb miren cap al sud, la terra dels astuts i cruels Lannister, que retenen les seves germanes. Mentrestant, la reina exiliada Daenerys, posseïdora dels tres únics dracs que resten al món, avança per un continent amarat de sang. La guerra pel Tron de Ferro es desferma per tot Westeros amb més força que mai, però si el Mur s'esquerda, cap rei no viurà per reclamar-lo.