George Pelecanos

Anna Byrne is a jailhouse librarian. Most days, she loves her job and shares the life-affirming power of books to people who would have no hope without them. Often, she can get too close and forget some of these men are dangerous criminals.But some of them never had a chance. Like Michael Hudson, who's been locked up awaiting trial before his sudden release. He's happy and relieved but can't shake the question preying on his mind: how comes the witness who put him behind bars is suddenly refusing to testify?There's a man who might have the answer, but he wants something first. Phil Ornazian is a private investigator who moonlights as a petty criminal. He's not exactly proud of it, but times are hard in Washington D.C. People have to change to survive, or die trying.But everything comes at a price and, at some point, everyone has to pay...

Nick Stefanos en a sa claque d’être détective privé. Fini les affaires d’adultère, il devient barman au Spot, à Washington. Un soir, un vieil ami, Billy Goodrich, vient le voir au comptoir. Sa femme

Vingt-neuf ans, athlétique, moral mais pragmatique, Spero Lucas, un ex-marine qui a combattu en Irak et travaille maintenant comme enquêteur pour un avocat à Washington DC, est le héros de cette nouv

Spero Lucas is a young Iraq war vet now working as a PI in Washington DC. He's hired by a young woman to find a painting she lost after being scammed by a super-smooth con-artist. Spero tracks the painting down, but the con-artist is part of a team of ruthless thugs, and the woman who hired Spero is brutally attack as a warning to stay away. The warning doesn't work. Spero is angry and he goes on the offensive, taking out the gang one by one. But where do Spero's remorseless killings sit on the morality scale? Is he defending an innocent woman? Or have his experiences of war turned him into a ruthless killer, no better than the crooks he's up against?

The second novel featuring Spero Lucas, a young Iraq vet working as a PI in Washington DC but with a sideline in finding lost items - the kind of items the owners can't go to the police about. This time Spero is trying to find a painting belonging to a sexy young woman who was scammed out of it by a super-smooth con artist, part of a team of ruthless thugs. Spero tracks the painting down but the woman is brutally attacked to warn him off. Spero goes on the attack and takes the gang out one by one in their isolated house in the woods - prompting the question: have his experiences in Iraq turned him into an amoral killer no better than the crooks he's up against? It's this question that gives the book its dark edge, and moral ambiguity, with a hero we're not quite sure we should like.

A collection of stories, mostly gritty low-level crime stories set on Washington DC's mean streets. The Martini Shot itself is set in the world of TV, featuring a scriptwriter on a popular cop show. When a member of the crew is murdered, the screenwriter decides to track down the perpetrators himself, to see if as a writer he can do more than just talk the talk.

They never found the killer. All they knew, back in the winter of 1985, was that someone was taking teenagers, killing them and leaving their abused bodies in public parks. Three victims in all, with no link between them except a oddity of their names. They read the same back-to-front - Otto, Ava and lastly Eve. A lot has happened in the twenty years since. Detectives Gus Ramone and Dan Holiday - two of the leads on the case - have pursued very different paths. Gus has climbed to the heights of Detective Sergeant and built himself a reputation as a very good cop, whilst Dan has been drummed ...

Michael Hudson acaba de salir de la cárcel. Se ha librado de una condena larga gracias a Phil Ornazian, un detective que ha movido los hilos para que retiren la denuncia que pesaba sobre el chico. Decidido a reformarse, Michael quiere buscar un trabajo honrado y llevar una vida tranquila en Washington D. C. pero Ornazian quiere que le devuelva el favor, y le presiona para que le ayude a dar un ultimo golpe

Michael Hudson acaba de salir de la cárcel. Se ha librado de una condena larga gracias a Phil Ornazian, un detective que ha movido los hilos para que retiren la denuncia que pesaba sobre el chico. Decidido a reformarse, Michael quiere buscar un trabajo honrado y llevar una vida tranquila en Washington D. C. Pero Ornazian quiere que le devuelva el favor, y le presiona para que le ayude a dar un ultimo golpe

En détention préventive pour vol, Michael Hudson attend sagement son procès en dévorant les livres que lui recommande Anna, la bibliothécaire de la prison. Et un jour, il se retrouve dehors, libre co

This is a wonderful powerful novel that deserves to win an Oscar TIME OUT

GEORGE P. PELECANOSHard Revolution is a rich, dramatic, totally engrossing story of two brothersone a rookie police officer, one a recently returned Vietnam veterancaught up in the chaos that engulfed D. C. in 1968, when riots followed the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Derek Strange is his family's straight arrow, but his older brother Dennis has always had a harder time. Home from the war and in several varieties of trouble, Dennis is in danger of making one bad decision too many. While Derek tries to be there for Dennis, no amount of brotherly love can save Dennis from Alvin Jones, a local drug dealer who draws him into his web. An apocalyptic gun battle and an impossible decision collide in the electrifying climax of the most powerful book yet from George Pelecanos, a novelist who "writes with intelligence and complexity, as well as with a sober recognition of the evil at large in the world." (Washington Post) Author Biography: George P. Pelecanos is a screenwriter, independent film producer, award-winning journalist, and the author of the bestselling series of novels set in and around Washington, D. C., where he lives with his wife and children. Pelecanos is also at work as a producer on the HBO hit series The Wire.

George P. Pelecanos In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police rookie Derek Strange tries to help his brother, a Vietnam vet with a disability pension and a drug problem. But Washington, D.C., like the rest of the country, soon reels from the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

George PelecanosA Washington, D.C., crime overlord is fighting for his life in court. Two younger dealers are fighting for his territory, prestige, and millions of dollars in future profits. It takes only one slip-a kid going out of control with a rented pistol-to push friction closer to wholesale slaughter. In the midst of this extraordinary tension, private investigator Derek Strange has found a woman whose testimony could mean death or freedom for the crime lord. He wants her to talk-but first he'll have to find a way to keep her alive. Step by step, Strange and his partner are drawn into the darkness, confronting gunrunners, drug dealers, and ordinary people caught up in the ruthless violence of the business. SOUL CIRCUS is a heart-stopping thriller that could only have been written by George Pelecanos, the writer who "has gone from cult favorite to acknowledged master" ("Booklist").

> La obra maestra de Pelecanos, uno de los mejores autores de novela negra de la actualidad. > Autores de la talla de Michael Connelly lo han señalado como uno de sus escritores favoritos.

Por el guionista y productor de la aclamada serie dramática The Wire. En una calurosa tarde del verano de 1972, tres adolescentes blancos -Alex Pappas y sus amigos Billy Cachoris y Pete Whitten- deciden conducir hacia un barrio marginal de Washington. La incursion supone que seis vidas se vean alteradas para siempre. A causa del enfrentamiento con tres chicos negros, Billy resulta muerto y Alex seriamente herido. En 2007, Alex regenta la cafeteria de su familia y llora la muerte de su hijo, caido en Irak. Entonces, uno de los hombres negros que sobrevivieron al incidente del 72 contacta con el, abriendo la puerta a la reconciliacion. Pero a la vez, otro superviviente, el hombre que hirio a Alex, sale de prision con intencion de extorsionarlo.