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Het D.C. KwartetReeks

Deze serie gidst lezers door levenswendingen en morele dilemma's. Het volgt het lot van personages die worstelen met persoonlijke demonen en externe bedreigingen. Het verhaal biedt een spannende plot vol onverwachte wendingen en diepgaande karakterstudies. Het is een boeiende leeservaring voor liefhebbers van complexe verhalen met goed ontwikkelde personages.

The Sweet Forever
The Big Blowdown
King Suckerman
Shame the Devil

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  1. 1

    The Big Blowdown

    • 313bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    4,1(2507)Tarief

    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".

    The Big Blowdown
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    King Suckerman

    • 288bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    3,9(119)Tarief

    Wilton Cooper is at a drive-in movie when he notices the ugly white boy walk into the projection booth. Seconds later a gun goes off, perfectly timed to coincide with the movie?s noisy climax. When the boy struts coolly out, blood sprayed on the front of his cheap print shirt, Cooper knows he?s found his partner. King Suckerman weaves the blaxploitation films, the drug deals, the soul music and the racial tensions that defined the ?70?s into a story of natural-born killers and two men who risk everything to bring them down. This is the second novel in the DC Quartet, the most explosive contribution to crime fiction since Ellroy?s LA Quartet.

    King Suckerman
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    The Sweet Forever

    3,9(86)Tarief

    Marcus Clay's record store is at the epicenter of the drug trade in Washington, D.C., in the mid-1980s. Dimitri Karras, his best friend and store manager, is rapidly developing a nasty drug habit. But things get worse when the two men witness the theft of the bag of a local drug lord who is willing to destroy the entire neighborhood to get it back. "A detailed and emotionally powerful crime novel."--"Chicago Tribune."

    The Sweet Forever
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    Shame the Devil

    • 320bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,9(1492)Tarief

    'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' STEPHEN KING Washington, D.C., 1995. What should have been a straightforward restaurant robbery goes horribly wrong. Several workers are shot in cold blood; the gunman's brother is killed by the police; a young boy is run over by a careering getaway car. Three years pass. Victims and their relatives gather in the aftermath, still trying to come to terms with their grief. But gunman Frank Farrow has other ideas. Now the heat has died down, he is on his way back to Washington, determined to avenge his lost brother - by killing everyone involved in his death.

    Shame the Devil