Big Blowdown

Washington DC 1946, Pete Karras and Joey Recevo find work after the war providing muscle for Mr Burke who runs a protection racket with the Mafia, but Pete Karras is too soft on his fellow immigrants. Three years later Pete and Joey meet up again for a final confrontation.

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'Pelecanos has enormous strengths as a crime writer. He can't write a dull sentence, his dialogue has great rhythm, his action scenes are ferociously effective. But more than that, he has a powerful social conscience' Observer; 'Pelecanos has joined James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block at the high table of contemporary crime greats' The Times

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George P. Pelecanos is the author of seven novels including the blaxploitation thrlller King Suckerman which was shortlisted for the 1998 Crime Writers' Association Golden Dagger Award and is being filmed with multiplatinum rapper Puff Daddy in the star role. As an independent film producer, he has handled the movies of the Coen Brothers and other cutting edge movie mavericks.

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