George Pelecanos - Böcker

»Pelecanos i toppform!« | San Francisco Chronicle »En av de bästa nu levande kriminalförfattarna« | Dennis Lehane Våren 1968. Solen skiner över ett USA på randen till inbördeskrig. Martin Luther King predikar för fredliga protester, men utan resul...

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Spero Lucas har ett nytt yrke. Sedan han kom hem från kriget i Irak har en brottsmålsadvokat anlitat honom för särskilda undersökningar. Lucas är bra på det, och han har skapat sig en alldeles speciell nisch: att leta upp och återta stöldgods, uta...

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»Den kanske bästa nu levande kriminalförfattaren.« Stephen King »En av USA:s främsta samtida författare.« TIME OUT Privatdetektiv Derek Strange och hans partner, Terry Quinn, driver en detektivbyrå i en sjaskig del av Washington, DC. En dag får de...

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'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' Stephen King After the Carusos family home is destroyed by police with a no-knock warrant, the family struggle to return to normal. Two former inmates reunite on a TV set. They're both back on th...

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'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' Stephen KingAfter the Carusos family home is destroyed by police with a no-knock warrant, the family struggle to return to normal. Two former inmates reunite on a TV set. They're both back on the...

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Privatdetektiv Derek Strange och hans partner, Terry Quinn, driver en detektivbyrå i en sjaskig del av Washington, DC. En dag får de besök av en ung man som ger dem i uppdrag att söka upp hans försvunna flickvän - och så letar Strange och Quinn up...

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Spero Lucas har ett nytt yrke. Sedan han kom hem från kriget i Irak har en brottsmålsadvokat anlitat honom för särskilda undersökningar. Lucas är bra på det, och har skapat sig en speciell nisch: att leta upp och återta stöldgods, utan att ställa ...

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After World War II, two boys find work by providing muscle for the local boss, with one teaching the other how to be tougher on immigrants. When the boss assigns them a protection job, the buddies face off again. But this time they learn the true ...

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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...

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Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body has been found in a local community garden.The m...

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Every man has his dark side . . . Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers. The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting -- "The Double" -- Grace Kinka...

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Crime fiction writer George Pelecanos introduces Spero Lucas, an anti-hero making his place in the world one battle at a time. Includes a bonus work of short fiction focusing on Spero's early life. Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he retu...

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Originally published: St. Martin's Press, 1993.

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As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off c...

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"You already been a punk. Least you can do is go out like a man." Then a dull popping sound and a quiet splash. In his third appearance in George Pelecanos's acclaimed series, Nick Stefanos has been spending too much time with bad women and bad bo...

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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. The two ex-co...

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A Washington, D.C., crime lord fights for his life in court while P.I. Derek Strange finds a woman whose testimony could mean death or freedom for the crime lord.

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In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage. "Mr. Pelecanos's uniqueness comes from his bravery in ignoring the conce...

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Several restaurant workers are murdered by a robber, whose brother is killed by police during the chaotic event. As everyone struggles to heal after the incident, the gunman is determined to kill everyone involved in his brother's death.

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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 ...

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In the summer of 1976, the nation's capital is gearing up for the Bicentennial. Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track, and the hot new film "King Suckerman" has everyone talking. Two knockaround guys named Clay and Karras are out lookin...

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A bold, brilliant tale of mystery, revenge, and survival in the 1980s, when cocaine and money ruled the city streets and even the good guys wanted a piece of the action. It's March madness and the college boys are playing basketball on TV. But on ...

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Every man has his dark side...Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers. The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The Double"--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend ...

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From "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world" ( Esquire ) comes this powerful early novel--the noirish story of how a Washington, D.C., liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to be a shoedog.

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From the bestselling and Emmy-nominated writer behind HBO's  We Own This City:  a "gripping, surprisingly soulful" mystery about an ex-offender who must choose between the man who got him out and the woman who showed him an...

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Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their debut in "Right As Rain, " are hired to find a teenager turned prostitute and enter their most dangerous territory ever.

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The first in the excellent Strange and Quinn series from 'The coolest writer in America' GQ. Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black polic...

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A fatal shooting that strikes too close to home leaves PI Derek Strange determined to find the killer - whatever the cost. From one of the award-winning writers of THE WIRE. Set in darkest, downtown Washington, Hell to Pay begins with Quinn and St...

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'Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer' STEPHEN KING Washington, D.C., 1995. What should have been a straightforward restaurant robbery goes horribly wrong. Several workers are shot in cold blood; the gunman's brother is...

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