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Loading... Hell to Payby George P. Pelecanos
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. KingRat | Mar 26, 2009 |   Well written and exciting and takes place in Silver Spring, Maryland. (  )Gary10 | Oct 12, 2008 | Hell to Pay is set after the events of Right as Rain. Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are now partners; they work together and also coach a Pee-Wee football team as part of a program to help at-risk youths. But when a talented player from the team is killed in a act of drug related violence, Strange and Quinn attempt to find those responsible, while Strange struggles with the question of what he should do once they are found. Again, Pelecanos has captured the essence of DC perfectly, from the descriptions of the neighborhoods to the grief that follows the shooting (including the memorial t-shirts the family wears in the aftermath of the funeral). The characters are more evolved here; Strange shows a more human side of himself, while Quinn goes from being just angry and action obsessed to having more complex anger issues about race and respect. (  )bibliophool | Jun 12, 2008 | pretty damned good read. hard-boiled type of ex-cop detective with his own problems engaged me right away. GP has a great ear for dialogue--at least it seems so to me--and he's got his protagonist saying the most memorable line: "Can't no murder ever be SOLVED." ( )TomChicago | Dec 26, 2006 | 0.087 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0446611328, Mass Market Paperback)In Hell to Pay, Washington, D.C., is just one more thug in an endless list of thugs who brutalize the poor, the weak, and the young. The primary victim this time is a rising star on Derek Strange's Pee Wee football team. In this city where making T-shirts for bereaved families of young murder victims is a full-time business, the boy is an accidental victim in a war between drug dealers and lowlifes.Private investigator Strange, in his second George Pelecanos outing (after 2001's Right as Rain), has seen enough of this face of D.C. His relationship to his secretary/lover Janine sputters in the wake of increasing, irrational infidelities. His moral compass swings wildly as he tracks the killers, Garfield "Death" Potter and friends. Not knowing if he can be satisfied seeing these men in prison, Strange contemplates other brands of "justice." For fans of Pelecanos, all the usual trappings are here: the hyper-real dialogue, the bloody street fights, the immersion in classic R&B, and the most current music on the streets. Pelecanos does stumble in a few places. His narrative becomes wooden at times, and his plot features a couple of glaring coincidences (e.g., Strange just happens to jot down the license plate of a car that later turns out to be the one driven by the murderers). But Pelecanos is the real deal in noir. If Dennis Lehane owns Boston and Michael Connelly is master of L.A., Pelecanos is dark D.C.'s intimate chronicler. --Patrick O'Kelley (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:15 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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