Shame the Devil - Hardcover

Pelecanos, George P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316695238 ISBN 13: 9780316695237

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 2000

Synopsis

A restaurant robbery goes badly wrong in Washington, D.C., leaving a number of employees dead, the gunman's brother killed by police, and a young boy run over by the getaway car, a situation that rapidly worsens as the gunman vows to avenge his brother by killing every person involved in his death. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

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

Available from Dell

Book Description:

A star of American crime fiction with a novel that has all the violence and strange originality of a Coen Brothers movie

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0316695238
• ISBN 13: 9780316695237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 299