What It Was - Couverture rigide

Pelecanos, George

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 140914366X ISBN 13 : 9781409143666

Editeur : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2012

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A deluxe collector's edition, numbered and signed by the author, published alongside a special edition ebook which will be priced at 99p until 28th February 2012

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 fueled 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

George Pelecanos is an independent film producer, an essayist, the recipient of numerous international writing awards, a producer and an EMMY-nominated writer on the HBO hit series THE WIRE. He is the author of a bestselling series of crime novels set in and around Washington, D.C.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 140914366X
• ISBN 13: 9781409143666
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224