George Pelecanos Reihenfolge der Bücher

Pelecanos breaks new literary ground with the story of a dog's life--from the dog's perspective--on the mean streets of Washington, DC

Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writer George Pelecanos

Der junge Michael Hudson sitzt eine Haftstrafe wegen eines bewaffneten Raubüberfalls ab, an dem er als Fahrer beteiligt gewesen war. Im Gefängnis entdeckt er, der ohne Schulabschluss auf die schiefe Bahn geraten ist, das Lesen für sich. John Steinbeck, Elmore Leonard, Short Storys: Bücher werden für ihn zu einer Möglichkeit, sich über sein eigenes Leben klar zu werden. Eines Tages wird Michael völlig unerwartet entlassen. Er weiß nicht, dass sein Verfahren von Phil Ornazian, einem skrupellosen Privatdetektiv, der seine Familie über Wasser halten muss, manipuliert wurde. Während Michael im Alltag Fuß zu fassen versucht und als Küchenhilfe jobbt, ermittelt Ornazian in einem Vergewaltigungsfall in der Washingtoner Oberschicht. Für eine illegale, bewaffnete Operation braucht Ornazian einen Fahrer – und Michael steht gewissermaßen in seiner Schuld

Washington, D. C.: Bartender und Gelegenheitsdetektiv Nick Stefanos ist ziemlich am Ende und lebt eigentlich nur noch für den nächsten Drink. Als er eines Abends auf einer Parkbank am Anacostia River heillos betrunken Ohrenzeuge des Mordes an dem Teenager Calvin Jeter wird, reißt er sich zusammen, denn die Metropolitan Police scheint der Fall nicht besonders zu interessieren, sie hält den Toten doch für ein typisches Opfer der Washingtoner Gang-Kriminalität. Aber Nick weiß, dass Gangs keine Schalldämpfer benutzen – gemeinsam mit Privatdetektiv Jack LaDuke versucht er die Killer zu fassen und findet sich bald in einem Sumpf aus Drogen und sexueller Ausbeutung wieder: Eine Reise in die Dunkelheit der menschlichen Seele und durch die schwärzesten Schatten der amerikanischen Hauptstadt beginnt ...

A brand-new collection of stories from an award-winning writer of HBO series Treme and The Wire

Every man has his dark side... Spero Lucas confronts his own in an explosive thriller from the writer of the award-winning THE WIRE. Spero Lucas is a young Iraq war vet now working as a PI in Washington DC. He's hired by a young woman to find a painting she lost after being scammed by a super-smooth con-artist. Spero tracks the painting down, but the con-artist is part of a team of ruthless thugs, and the woman who hired Spero is brutally attacked as a warning to stay away. The warning doesn't work. Spero is angry and he goes on the offensive, taking out the gang one by one. But where do Spero's remorseless killings sit on the morality scale? Is he defending an innocent woman? Or have his experiences of war turned him into a ruthless killer, no better than the crooks he's up against?

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 recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way. Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fuelled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.

«Der Auftakt zu einer phantastischen neuen Serie!» NEW YORK TIMES Spero Lucas hat als Privatermittler eine Nische entdeckt: das Aufspüren verlorener Gegenstände. Er tut das schnell und ohne Fragen zu stellen; sein Anteil beträgt 40 Prozent. Jetzt engagiert ihn der in Haft sitzende Drogenboss Hawkins. Lucas soll ein verschwundenes Päckchen Marihuana aufspüren und außerdem herausfinden, wer Hawkins ins Geschäft pfuscht. Wie immer ist Lucas erfolgreich: Er treibt die Ware auf, kassiert das Geld – und dann entgleiten ihm die Ereignisse. Schnell wird er selbst zum Spielball, tief verstrickt in ein Netz aus Korruption und Gewalt ...

When Thomas Flynn leaves his son, seventeen year old Chris, at Pine Ridge, a juvenile prison near Washington, D.C., his heart is broken but his mind is made up: Chris will have to pay for the mistakes he's made. Inside, Chris is exposed to kids from a different D.C. than the comfortable one he knew - one less remote from the street fights, car chases, and marijuana deals that got him here in the first place. A decade later, Chris and the friends he made at Pine Ridge seem reformed. Chris has a job, thanks to his father, a girlfriend, and his own apartment. But when he and the others are inadvertently caught up in a burglary, old habits and worse instincts rise to the surface, threatening this new-found stability with sudden treachery and violence. With the drama, compassion, and urgency for which Pelecanos is celebrated, The Way Home travels the streets of Washington, D.C. and tells the story of its people, and the tensions that always linger just out of sight, circling back again and again to that clapboard house on Livingston Street where Thomas and Chris Flynn's rocky relationship moves from distrust and scorn toward a flawed, but real, redemption. How far will a father go to save his son? That question is the beating pulse beneath George Pelecanos's spectacular new novel, a page-turning story of rebellion, greed, and the high price of a second chance.