Hell To Pay: From Co-Creator of Hit HBO Show 'We Own This City' by George Peleca

Description: Hell To Pay by George Pelecanos A fatal shooting that strikes too close to home leaves PI Derek Strange determined to find the killer whatever the cost. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description No one would choose to live in the underbelly of Washington DC, but this is private investigator Derek Stranges world. Along with his partner Terry Quinn, he witnesses the worst that the city has to offer - the runaways, the teenage hookers and, of course, the drugs. Just a few miles from the White House is the ultimate have and have-not nightmare.But one more senseless death on a sunny afternoon in the city shakes even Derek Stranges existence. A victim shot down by bullets meant for another. A tragic accident that strikes just too close to home. Stranges grief is all-consuming and he swears to track down and destroy the killer - ghetto style. But as he throws himself deeper and deeper into the hunt, he has to ask questions of himself and his world that he would rather not. Dark, powerful and moving, Hell to Pay marks Pelecanos as one of the finest crime novelists of his time and a supreme chronicler of modern American life. Notes Rejacketed alongside first paperback of Hard Revolution to mark George Pelecanoss transfer to George Pelecanoss transfer to Phoenix The coolest writer in America GQ Pelecanos gets better with each book...This is crime writing of great quality TELEGRAPH HELL TO PAY is a magnificently written, multi-layered novel of violence and despair that grabs you by the lapels and refuses to leave you alone even when its done. Boy, that Pelecanos can write TIME OUT A thriller that transcends genres and establishes Pelecanos as not just a great crime writer but as a great writer, period THE TIMES This is a wonderful book ... it is a story of ordinary - and often evil - people, written with an acute understanding of human frailties. There are no small subjects or themes, and Pelecanos cleverly draws you, slowly but surely, into his web of deceit GUARDIAN Pelecanos manages an independent production company responsible for such films as the Coen Brothers Raising Arizona and Barton Fink Author Biography George P. Pelecanos is a screenwriter, independent film producer, award-winning journalist, and author of ten novels set in and around Washington DC, where he lives with his wife and three children. Promotional Rejacketed alongside first paperback of Hard Revolution to mark George Pelecanoss transfer to George Pelecanoss transfer to Phoenix The coolest writer in America GQ Pelecanos gets better with each book...This is crime writing of great quality TELEGRAPH HELL TO PAY is a magnificently written, multi-layered novel of violence and despair that grabs you by the lapels and refuses to leave you alone even when its done. Boy, that Pelecanos can write TIME OUT A thriller that transcends genres and establishes Pelecanos as not just a great crime writer but as a great writer, period THE TIMES This is a wonderful book ... it is a story of ordinary - and often evil - people, written with an acute understanding of human frailties. There are no small subjects or themes, and Pelecanos cleverly draws you, slowly but surely, into his web of deceit GUARDIAN Pelecanos manages an independent production company responsible for such films as the Coen Brothers Raising Arizona and Barton Fink Kirkus UK Review Slow to start for a crime novel, Pelecanos takes a hefty chunk of the book to create the atmosphere of the seedy run-down neighbourhoods in Washington DC, but the first major crime is a long time coming. The story meanders through the fecklessness of American life, the strip joints, the garbage, dog fights, the grimy cultureless vacuum where the underclasses gamble, take drugs and cling on to a perilous edge between poverty and destitution. Living on the fringe of crime in the ghetto is a way of life. And in this world move Derek Strange and Terry Quinn - private investigators. Strange, a retired cop in his 50s, is a neighbourhood P.I. he works his patch and acts as a football coach in an attempt to keep minors off the streets where they are preyed upon by waiting gangs. His work to date has been mostly surveillance checking out the ID of a young man who is going to marry the daughter of a friend, videoing prostitutes being harassed by cops. Then he and another P.I, Terry Quinn, are hired to find a runaway 14-year-old white girl who is now working as a prostitute. Routine, they think, until they come up against the pimp of all pimps, Worldwide Wilson, a suave and brutal enemy they have to use all their resources to defeat. When an innocent minor is shot, the game turns even uglier. The kid was one of Stranges football team and he now has a personal motive to find the killers. After its leisurely start, this is a compelling thriller handled with powerful psychological acuity. (Kirkus UK) Kirkus US Review A drive-by shooting that ordinarily wouldnt even rate the front page of the Washington Post Metro section pits p.i. Derek Strange (Right as Rain, 2001) against a city full of men behaving badly. Lorenze Wilder owes gangbanger Garfield Potter less than $100, but Potter cant be seen to let this one slide or everybody in town will be on him. So he gathers up his closest associates, Carlton Little and Charles White (whose fighting dog Potters already shot by way of warm-up), and goes out hunting Wilder. Inevitably, of course, he finds him-together with his sisters eight-year-old son Joe. The death of the boy along with that of his uncle pulls Strange into the case not only because hes been coaching Joes football team-part of a frantic citywide effort to keep kids from drifting out onto the murderous streets-but because he soon has a paying client: celebrated druglord Granville Oliver, who has reasons of his own for wanting the killers found. The shooting of an innocent child and the reward the cops are offering insure that some snitch hungry for his next fix will soon give up Potter and Co., but Oliver doesnt want them to get arrested and do time under the Districts no-death-penalty law; he wants to make sure the problem has been taken care of for keeps. His new client is just one more way Strange and his ex-cop friend Terry Quinn-whose attempts to help round up a runaway teenager now turning tricks leads him into the dark heart of one of the hundred hellish neighborhoods Pelecanos knows the way you know the road home-are torn between compassion and dreams of violent revenge. Despite all the scenes illustrating the hopelessness of growing up in the nations capital, the authors ardent muckraking makes his tenth novel his most hopeful, even though it takes the edge off his trademark grasp of urban evil. (Kirkus Reviews) Long Description No one would choose to live in the underbelly of Washington DC, but this is private investigator Derek Stranges world. Along with his partner Terry Quinn, he witnesses the worst that the city has to offer - the runaways, the teenage hookers and, of course, the drugs. Just a few miles from the White House is the ultimate have and have-not nightmare.But one more senseless death on a sunny afternoon in the city shakes even Derek Stranges existence. A victim shot down by bullets meant for another. A tragic accident that strikes just too close to home. Stranges grief is all-consuming and he swears to track down and destroy the killer - ghetto style. But as he throws himself deeper and deeper into the hunt, he has to ask questions of himself and his world that he would rather not. Dark, powerful and moving, Hell to Pay marks Pelecanos as one of the finest crime novelists of his time and a supreme chronicler of modern American life. Promotional "Headline" A fatal shooting that strikes too close to home leaves PI Derek Strange determined to find the killer - whatever the cost. From one of the award-winning writers of THE WIRE. Description for Sales People Reissued in the stunning new cover liveryPublished alongside THE WAY HOME - new in paperback and a Cactus TV Book Club selectionThe entire backlist is being reissued in 2010George Pelecanos is a writer, story editor and producer on the hit US TV series THE WIRETHE NIGHT GARDENER reached the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller listGeorge Pelecanos was shortlisted for the CWA GOLD DAGGERPresident Obama is a fan of George Pelecanos Details ISBN0752848623 Publisher Orion Publishing Co ISBN-10 0752848623 ISBN-13 9780752848624 Format Paperback Imprint Orion mass market paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.54 Media Book Pages 368 Language English Author George Pelecanos Edition 2nd UK Release Date 2010-03-04 Year 2010 Publication Date 2010-03-04 Subtitle From Co-Creator of Hit HBO Show We Own This City Audience General AU Release Date 2008-06-30 NZ Release Date 2008-06-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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