Hell To Pay - From Co-Creator of Hit HBO Show 'We Own This City' (Paperback, New Ed)

Slow to start for a crime novel, Pelecanos takes a hefty chunk of the book to create the atmosphere of the seedy run-down neighbourhoods in Washington DC, but the first major crime is a long time coming. The story meanders through the fecklessness of American life, the strip joints, the garbage, dog fights, the grimy cultureless vacuum where the underclasses gamble, take drugs and cling on to a perilous edge between poverty and destitution. Living on the fringe of crime in the ghetto is a way of life. And in this world move Derek Strange and Terry Quinn - private investigators. Strange, a retired cop in his 50s, is a neighbourhood P.I. he works his patch and acts as a football coach in an attempt to keep minors off the streets where they are preyed upon by waiting gangs. His work to date has been mostly surveillance checking out the ID of a young man who is going to marry the daughter of a friend, videoing prostitutes being harassed by cops. Then he and another P.I, Terry Quinn, are hired to find a runaway 14-year-old white girl who is now working as a prostitute. Routine, they think, until they come up against the pimp of all pimps, Worldwide Wilson, a suave and brutal enemy they have to use all their resources to defeat. When an innocent minor is shot, the game turns even uglier. The kid was one of Stranges football team and he now has a personal motive to find the killers. After its leisurely start, this is a compelling thriller handled with powerful psychological acuity. (Kirkus UK)

A fatal shooting that strikes too close to home leaves PI Derek Strange determined to find the killer - whatever the cost. From one of the award-winning writers of THE WIRE. Set in darkest, downtown Washington, Hell to Pay begins with Quinn and Strange dealing with the usual detritus of the world's most violent city - a bent cop and a missing teenage-girl-turned-hooker - but then a senseless death on a sunny afternoon shakes even Derek Strange's existence. A victim shot down by bullets meant for another; a tragic accident that strikes just too close to home. Strange's grief is all-consuming and he swears to track down and destroy the killers - ghetto style. But as he throws himself deeper and deeper into the hunt, he has to ask questions of himself and his world that he would rather not.

General

Imprint:	Orion mass market paperback
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2010
Authors:	George Pelecanos
Dimensions:	196 x 130 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	368
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7528-4862-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	0-7528-4862-3
Barcode:	9780752848624

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