George Pelecanos is the bestselling author of twenty novels set in and around Washington, D.C. He is also an independent film producer, and a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO series The Wire, Treme, and The Deuce. He lives in Maryland.
"A modern storytelling master's paean to the power of books,
literature, librarians, and booksellers."--Bethanne Patrick,
NPR.org
"In this book, George Pelecanos stretches, showing a broader
understanding of his characters' actions and motivations, and the
result is a more interesting book. I hope that whatever he may do
in television in the future, he never stops writing
novels."--Washington Times
"Like his hero Elmore Leonard, Pelecanos finds the humanity in the
lowest of lowlifes. . . . Pelecanos' peppery dialogue energizes
every page."--Lloyd Sachs, Chicago Tribune
"Read this crime novel for entertainment, a look into the human
condition in extraordinary circumstances, and for the dissection of
the democratic act of the experience of reading great
books."--KUMW
"The thriller plot is taut and suspenseful, as jolting as it is
carefully nuanced, but it is Pelecanos' focus on character, on his
ability to show the richness and depth of his people, as well as
their often-heartbreaking yearning for something more, that gives
this novel-and all his work-its special power."--Booklist, Starred
Review
"This is a book about love of family, about the stresses that can
lure almost anyone into crime and about how hard it can be for
someone [to] make it on the outside. But most of all, it is a book
about the transformative powers of friendship and reading. The
story is told in tight, soulful prose by a novelist who has devoted
many hours to inmate literacy programs in D.C."--Bruce DeSilva,
Associated Press
"Using his customary knowing dialogue and stripped-down, soulful
prose, Pelecanos skillfully, sensitively works the urban frontier
where the problems and stresses of everyday life cross the line
into the sort of criminal behavior that could tempt anyone-anyone
at all."--Kirkus
If I were in jail, George Pelecanos would be on my reading list,
right up there with James Lee Burke and Elmore Leonard. . . .
Pelecanos's characters [are] so human and so doomed. This is an
author who writes with the steady hand of a man who knows he's
driving a cool set of wheels and respects his own mechanical
skills."--Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
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