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What It Was: From Co-Creator of Hit HBO Show 'We Own This City'
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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What It Was: From Co-Creator of Hit HBO Show 'We Own This City'
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) George Pelecanos
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:272 | Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 132 |
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Category/Genre | Crime and mystery |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781409139508
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Classifications | Dewey:813.6 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Orion Publishing Co
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Imprint |
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
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Publication Date |
8 November 2012 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
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 fuelled 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.
Author Biography
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 crime novels set in and around Washington, D.C.
Reviewsa taut, lyrical, nostalgic look at times gone by and the morality which remains. * CATHOLIC HERALD *
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