George Pelecanos

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Another tough, heart-rending odyssey through a war zone in which every denizen has the potential to be both hero and villain. Full review >

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Mostly, though, the bleak carnival of street crime goes hand in hand with a worldview so deterministic you’d swear nothing... Full review >

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The dog-eat-dog metaphor, borrowed perhaps from the film Amores Perros, provides a brutal, tender new way for Pelecanos to... Full review >

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The most conventionally ambitious of Pelecanos’s sprawling studies of D.C. crime: pat in its sociological determinism,... Full review >

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Despite all the scenes illustrating the hopelessness of growing up in the nation’s capital, the author’s ardent muckraking... Full review >

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The best American comparison, in fact, is James Lee Burke, who also keeps writing the same churning book over and over and... Full review >

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Redemption the hard way, well-crafted and deeply felt. Full review >

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