George Pelecanos, né à Wahington le 18 févier 1957, est auteur de romans policiers. Il a fait de sa ville son terrain de jeux, tous ses romans se déroulant dans cette ville où les différentes communautés ont parfois bien du mal à cohabiter. Après différents petits boulots, il commence à travailler pour le cinéma, et crée sa propre société de distribution de films en 1981. Tout cela lui laisse peu de temps, aussi écrit-il la nuit. Ainsi vont naître les aventures du détective Nick Stefanos, que l'on peut retrouver dans "Le chien qui vendait des chaussures" (1997), "Anacostia river blues" (1999), "Nick la galère" (2001) ou "Liquidations" (2003). Il s'identifie tellement à son héros qu'il rédige ses ouvrages à la première personne. Ensuite viennent les aventures d'un binôme d'enquêteurs Dimitri Karras et Marcus Clary, Nick Stefanos n'étant plus que consultant. On les retrouve dans "King Suckerman" (1999), "Suave comme l'éternité" (2000), "Funky Guns" (2001), et "Un nommé Peter Karras" (2001). Puis apparaissent deux nouveaux détectives, Derek Strange et Terry Quinn, notamment dans "Blanc comme neige" (2002) ou "Soul Circus" (2005). Plus de héros récurrents dans ses derniers ouvrages, mais toujours la ville de Washington et le milieu du sport comme toiles de fond :"Drama City" (2007), "Les jardins de la mort" (2008), "Un jour en mai" (2009) ou "Mauvais fils" (2011).
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- Date de parution08/02/2012
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Résumé
A riveting crime novel from one of the writers of THE WIRE. 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 fueled 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.
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 fueled 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.
A riveting crime novel from one of the writers of THE WIRE. 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 fueled 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.
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 fueled 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.