A Firing Offense: From Co-Creator of Hit HBO Show 'We Own This City'

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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-soaked and drug-riddled underbelly of Washington DC.

George Pelecanos is an independent-film producer, an essayist, the recipient of numerous international writing awards, a producer and an EMMY-nominated writer on the HBO hit series THE WIRE. He is the author of a bestselling series of novels set in and around Washington, DC, including HARD REVOLUTION, DRAMA CITY and WHAT IT WAS. He is currently a writer and producer for the acclaimed HBO series TREME. He lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.

Pelecanos is incapable of writing a book that isn't gripping * THE TIMES * To miss out on Pelecanos would be criminal * Barry Gifford * Perhaps the greatest living crime writer * Stephen King * Think of it as Chinatown meets Glengarry Glen Ross * WASHINGTON POST * There is no finer American crime writer working today * CHICAGO SUN TIMES * One of the finest crime writers of his generation * TIME OUT NEW YORK *