George P. Pelecanos is the author of eleven crime novels including the Nick Stefanos Trilogy and the Washington DC Quartet . Hell to Pay won the best novel of The Gumshoe Awards 2002. King Suckerman was shortlisted for the 1998 Crime Writers Association Golden Dagger Award. As an independent film producer, George Pelecanos has handled the movies of the Coen Brothers and other cutting edge movie mavericks.
The real deal; a dirty, human slice of raw American life...
Pelecanos has joined James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block at the high
table of contemporary crime greats
*The Times*
Volcanic, violent, exhilarating, it is also poignant and savagely
tender... Gritty and flawlessly paced, this is the finest novel
I've read this year
*Dennis Lehane*
Pelecanos is a star... Tough, streetwise, hip, cool, with a
soundtrack of classic soul and rock. What more do you need to
know?
*Independent on Sunday*
Dimitri Karras and Marcus Clay, first featured in Pelecanos's juicy King Suckerman (LJ 8/97), are law-abiding citizens of the ghetto, but in this sequel, Dimitri struggles with a cocaine habit‘and the temptation to pick up some easy cash.
The real deal; a dirty, human slice of raw American life...
Pelecanos has joined James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block at the high
table of contemporary crime greats * The Times *
Volcanic, violent, exhilarating, it is also poignant and savagely
tender... Gritty and flawlessly paced, this is the finest novel
I've read this year -- Dennis Lehane
Pelecanos is a star... Tough, streetwise, hip, cool, with a
soundtrack of classic soul and rock. What more do you need to know?
* Independent on Sunday *
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