La obra maestra de pelecanos y la que le convirti? un Best-S?ller en Estados Unidos.Cuando el cad?ver de un adolescente aparece en un parque p?blico de Washington, el detective Gus Ramone revive con intensidad una investigaci?n en la que particip? veinte a?os atr?s. El asesino, a quien los mede v?ctimas los parques de la ciudad y sali? impune. El nuevo crimen reunir? a los tres hombres que participaron en aquel caso y les dar? la oportunidad de cerrarlo. Tal vez ahora consigan atrapar al Jardinero Nocturno…
Derek Strange is a rookie cop, the job he’s dreamed of since he was a boy. His brother, Dennis, has not been as fortunate; home from the service with a disability pension and zero prospects, he is man with good intentions but bad habits. Derek has always looked out for Dennis, but no amount of brotherly love can save him from the dangerous world of Alvin Jones, a local bottom-feeder, hustler, and stone killer who draws him into his web of violence.While the rookie cop navigates the rocky terrain of a city in turmoil, a family ...
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 in some dangerous neighborhoods. The two ex-cops think they know the dangers, but nothing in their experience has prepared them for Worldwide Wilson, the pimp whose territory they are intruding upon. The situation is compounded when one of the young stars of a community pee-wee football team – which Strange and Quinn spend their evenings coaching – is ...
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 new pair of characters into the grittily real Washington DC landscape which has led to him being acclaimed as 'A great writer' (The Times) who 'deserves to be listed among the best' (Observer).
En 1972, tres adolescentes blancos -Alex, Billy y Pete- decidieron meterse en un barrio marginal de Washington. Esa incursi?n cambi? la vida de seis personas: a causa del enfrentamiento con tres chicos negros, Billy result? muerto y Alex seriamente herido.En 2007, Alex llora la muerte de su hijo ca?do en Iraq. De pronto, uno de los chicos negros que sobrevivieron al incidente del 72 contacta con ?l, abriendo la puerta a la reconciliaci?n al tiempo que otro superviviente sale de prisi?n con intenci?n de extorsionarle…
Soul Circus starts with a rented gun and moves into the vacuum created by the imprisonment of a D.C. crime lord. Two young dealers are fighting for the now unclaimed territory, prestige, and millions of dollars in future profits. Now the kid brother of one of those dealers is going to escalate the friction into wholesale slaughter.Private investigators Derek Strange and Terry Quinn have found a woman whose testimony could prove the difference between a death sentence and a return to the streets for the crime lord. First they have to get her to talk. Then, they have to keep her alive.
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 ...
