Shame the Devil: A Novel: 4 (D.C. Quartet) - Softcover

Pelecanos, George P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031613340X ISBN 13: 9780316133401

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2011

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 07 Pages: 400 in Publisher: Little own Frank Farrow. is a natural-born killer Roman Otis is a fine-looking crooner who does his killing on the side. On a hot DC afternoon Frank and Roman the hit a pizza shop called May's. When the hit was over. four people were executed. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. And when the sirens stopped wailing and the killers vanished into the heat. dozens of lives were shattered forever.Now it's three years later. and Dimitri Karras. who lost a son. is starting to live again. But Dimitri's old acquaintance. a PI named Nick Stefanos. has just unburied the past - by discovering the killers' identity. Suddenly the second act of a crime story is about to be told. Because the May's pizza parlor killers are coming back into town: where they'll be greeted with open arms. oken hearts. and at least one loaded gun.

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Product Description:

Frank Farrow is a natural-born killer. Roman Otis is a fine-looking crooner who does his killing on the side. On a hot D.C. afternoon Frank and Roman hit a pizza shop called May's. When the hit was over, four people were executed. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. And when the sirens stopped wailing and the killers vanished into the heat, dozens of lives were shattered forever.

Now it's three years later, and Dimitri Karras, who lost a son, is starting to live again. But Dimitri's old acquaintance, a P.I. named Nick Stefanos, has just unburied the past--by discovering the killers' identity. Suddenly the second act of a crime story is about to be told. Because the May's pizza parlor killers are coming back into town: where they'll be greeted with open arms, broken hearts, and at least one loaded gun.

Review:

"For some time George P. Pelecanos has been the best-kept secret in crime fiction -- maybe all fiction ... The word among writers and those in the know has long been 'Read Pelecanos.'"
-- Michael Connelly, author of Void Moon

"One of the best crime novelists alive, George Pelecanos is an American original."
-- Dennis Lehane, author of Prayers for Rain

"Tough and skillful...there are action scenes as fierce as any you will read and street talk that hits the ear as smart and accurate."
-- San Francisco Chronicle

Also by George P. Pelecanos:

The Sweet Forever

"Brilliant."
-- The Dallas Morning News

"The Sweet Forever is the bomb!"
-- The Seattle Times

King Suckerman

"King Suckerman's got jive, juice, and a whole lotta justice."
-- Time Out

"A great read ... stunning and forceful."
-- Michael Connelly, author of Void Moon

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About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 031613340X
• ISBN 13: 9780316133401
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400