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A Firing Offense by George Pelecanos
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Advertising director Nick Stefanos is well acquainted with the seedy side of the electronics business - blow-out sales and shady deals were his life on the shop floor. So when a stockboy disappears, it's not news. Just another metalhead off chasing a dream of big money and easy living. But the boy's gra ...Show more
Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go by George Pelecanos
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Like most of the trouble in Nick Stefanos' life, it started with a drink. Lying in the darkness, drunk and immobile, Nick hears two men murder a terrified teenager. When he wakes in the morning, his memory is blurred. But the dead boy is still there, submerged in the river. The police presume it's a gan ...Show more
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter; George Pelecanos (Introduction by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good--a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleaba ...Show more
Hard Revolution by George P. Pelecanos
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
On April 4th, 1968, Dr King is assassinated on the balcony of his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. And black America rises as one to condemn the slaying of their hero. For one week, it seems that the whole country will fall. And Derek, his brother, his father, his mother and his whole community find themsel ...Show more
Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
$23.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Derek Strange Novels
In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage.
Nick's Trip by George Pelecanos
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Part-time PI Nick Stefanos doesn't tail wives anymore. But when a childhood friend steps into Nick's bar after 15 years and asks for help locating his wife April, he feels obliged to do some digging. After a visit to the small-time crime boss with whom April was supposedly having an affair, Nick realise ...Show more
Right as Rain by George P. Pelecanos
$21.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous po ...Show more
Shame the Devil by George P. Pelecanos
$22.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
Washington, D.C., 1995. What should have been a straightforward restaurant robbery goes horribly wrong. Several workers are shot in cold blood; the gunman's brother is killed by the police; a young boy is run over by a careering getaway car. Three years pass. Victims and their relatives gather in the af ...Show more
Shoedog by George Pelecanos
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a stand-alone thriller by an acclaimed writer on "The Wire": now a 'Serpent's Tail' Classic. Constantine is a drifter with a lot of miles behind him, a lot more ahead and plenty of jobs in between that never showed up on anyone's books. Back in his home town, he hitches a ride on a bright spring ...Show more
THREE GREAT NOVELS by PELECANOS GEORGE
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
RIGHT AS RAIN - Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington DC, hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black policeman at the hands of a white officer. Caught between a corrupt police force and the flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some ...Show more
The Cut by George Pelecanos
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Spero Lucas
Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is forty percent. A high-profile crime boss who has h ...Show more