Nick's Trip

George P. Pelecanos

Back Bay Books

Drama City

In this blistering and soulful novel of the D.C. underworld, an ex-con finds himself caught between the light and the dark sides of the street after a malevolent young killer spoils his chances to stay straight.

Literature & Fiction

United States

Grand Central Publishing

The Barnes & Noble Review 
George Pelecanos takes a step back in time to give us a prequel to his bestselling and highly admired Derek Strange P.I. series ( Soul Circus, Hell to Pay, Right as Rain ), allowing a greater insight into the development of Strange's tough-guy, justice-at-any-cost character. 
In 1968, weeks before the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and at the height of the battle for civil rights, Strange is a young black cop new to the police force and partnered with an older white man. By contrast, his brother Dennis is getting deeper into crime as he and some acquaintances plan to knock over a convenience store. Strange's personal issues and family matters take a backseat to the explosive times, as Washington's inner city erupts in riots following Kings' murder. 
Pelecanos's vivid, astute, and meaningful narrative makes Hard Revolution an accomplished study of a culture tearing itself to pieces in the face of major social change. The conflicts of the world at large are perfectly represented in the protagonist, as Strange is forced to fight against his brother, neighbors who condemn him for serving the white power structure, and, ultimately himself. It's a true testament to Pelecanos's skill that no single plot element or story thread -- including the senseless murder of a black man by a drunken trio of white bank robbers -- outweighs the others. He uses his adept noir sensibility to further define personal tragedy and its greater symbolic meaning.

Hard Revolution.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Little,Brown & Co

Shame the Devil

Little,Brown

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous police force. As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city's flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel. In RIGHT AS RAIN George Pelecanos introduces a memorable pair of characters into the grittily real Washington DC landscape which has led to him being acclaimed as 'a great writer' THE TIMES

Right As Rain

ORION PAPERBACKS

A FIRING OFFENSE - Nick Stefanos, an aging salesman for Nutty Nathan's electronics, risks his already shaky position at work to locate the stockboy who has suddenly been declared missing. NICK'S TRIP - An old high-school friend drags Nick Stefanos into a complex and deadly conspiracy involving drugs, theft, intrigue, and murder. DOWN BY THE RIVER WHERE THE DEAD MEN GO - Sleeping off a night of drinking in a public park, Nick Stefanos is awakened by a dull plopping sound and a quiet splash that turn out to be the murder of Calvin Jetter, and the beginning of a grim investigation.

Stefano Novels : Down by the River', ' A Firing Offence', ' Nick's Trip

Orion Publishing

Three Great Novels Right As Rain; Hell to Pay; Soul Circus

Orion (an Imprint of The Orion

THE NIGHT GARDENER

Literary

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Night Gardener

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation.  But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war.  A novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption, THE TURNAROUND is another compelling, highly charged novel from George Pelecanos, "the best crime novelist in America." -Oregonian

The Turnaround

Orion Publishing Group

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