Right as Rain
- 320bladzijden
- 12 uur lezen
'The coolest writer in America' (GQ) begins a new crime series with his most accessible and commercial novel yet
Derek Strange & Terry Quinn Reeks
Deze serie volgt een duo onwaarschijnlijke detectives: Derek Strange, een succesvolle en zelfverzekerde zwarte man, en Terry Quinn, een witte man die nauwelijks het hoofd boven water houdt. Samen jagen ze op gerechtigheid in het rauwe landschap van Washington D.C. Hun contrasterende wereldbeelden en methoden leiden vaak tot spannende en onverwachte wendingen. De verhalen zitten vol actie, spanning en sociaal commentaar.
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Hell to Pay
- 448bladzijden
- 16 uur lezen
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now working as a prostitute. The two ex-cops think they know D.C.'s dangers, but nothing in their experience has prepared them for Worldwide Wilson, the pimp whose territory they're intruding upon. Combining inimitable neighborhood flavor, action scenes that rank among the best in fiction, and a clear-eyed view of morality in a world with few rules, "Hell to Pay" is another Pelecanos masterpiece for his ever-expanding audience to savor.
A young woman is brutally murdered and PIs Strange and Quinn are forced to confront their own part in the crime . . .
Harde revolutie
- 301bladzijden
- 11 uur lezen
Harde revolutie is het dramatische en fascinerende verhaal van twee broers - de een is net van de politieschool, de ander is zojuist uit Vietnam teruggekeerd - die betrokken raken bij de chaos die Washington DC in 1968 dreigt te overspoelen. In dat jaar breken er in de nasleep van de moord op Martin Luther King hevige rellen uit. Derek Strange probeert uit alle macht zijn oudere broer Dennis uit de greep van een plaatselijke drugsdealer te houden. Het culmineert in een apocalyptisch vuurgevecht.
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.