George P. Pelecanos Book order (chronological)

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

World-class crime-writing with all the depth and satisfaction of a quality box-set from the award-winning producer and writer of THE DEUCE and THE WIRE.

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 ...

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?

Il giallo è una vera e propria sfumatura dell'animo umano, un imprevisto dietro l'angolo che in un istante ci catapulta in una dimensione inattesa. E in questa raccolta, a indagare sulle ombre della realtà quotidiana sono le migliori firme della letteratura americana contemporanea: da Michael Connelly, che ci racconta cosa si nasconde dietro l'ennesimo incidente successo nel buio di Mulholland Drive, a Alice Munro, che disvela l'indicibile e crudele segreto risalente all'infanzia di due donne ormai adulte; da James Lee Burke, che ci proietta nei bassifondi della provincia intorno a una New Orleans distrutta dall'uragano Katrina, a Joyce Carol Oates, che illumina la tensione che cova in una casa in una piccola cittadina dello Stato di New York tra un padre cieco e due figlie separate dagli eventi della vita, fino poi a Elizabeth Strout, Holly Goddard Jones e molti altri. Venti storie diverse unite da una grande scrittura e da una capacità magnetica di sorprendere il lettore.

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.

The first in a stunning action-packed series from one of the writers of THE WIRE.