George P. Pelecanos Livres

Ça se passe un jour en mai. En 1972. Alex Pappas, 16 ans, décide de suivre ses acolytes pour une virée dans le quartier noir, histoire de semer un peu la pagaille. Forcément, l'affaire tourne mal. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, le souvenir de l'" incident " est toujours vivace. Certains cherchent à se racheter, d'autres veulent à nouveau en découdre. Tous ont encore la rage au ventre.

Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writer George Pelecanos

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 to the ultimate test. "The Big Blowdown" is the first novel in Pelecanos' acclaimed "Washington Quartet".

A classic collection from the hottest talent in US crime writing

A young woman is brutally murdered and PIs Strange and Quinn are forced to confront their own part in the crime . . .

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.

A rookie policeman in Washington, D.C. is surrounded by crimes that will make him the man he is eventually going to be.

A gritty urban crime thriller from one of the award-winning writers of THE WIRE.