Descriptions Hell to Pay (Derek Strange Novels) PDF
Paperback. Pub Date: February. 2011 Pages: 368 Publisher: Back Bay Books Derek Strange and Terry Quinn a team of investigators are Hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. It's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of DC's most utal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world - but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson. the ruthless operator whose territory they are intruding upon. Their mission is fractured by a violent criminal act against a young player from the neighborhood football team that Strange coaches. Tracking down the perpetrators becomes a point of honor for Strange and Quinn. and their investigation leads them deep inside the city's labyrinth of crime - and back. again. to the l...Pelecanos' new book, Hell To Pay, demonstrates that, as a key player in the film production company that creates the quirky movies of the Coen Brothers, he can give that duo a run for their money when it comes to bizarrely fractured narratives and idiosyncratic dialogue. This exhilarating piece marks another appearance for private investigators Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, who tread the meaner streets of Washington in the course of their dangerous work.
An apparently senseless death rocks the capital, and Strange finds himself personally involved in a bitter hunt for the killers. As he closes in, Derek finds the very tenets that guide his existence on the line, and only he can resolve a conflict that involves lacerating self-examination. Strange's wrestling with his personal problems is handled by Pelecanos with all the psychological acuity we expect from him, and the set-pieces are dispatched with the panache that is the author's hallmark:
Potter swung the gun so quickly that it lost its shape in the light. He slashed it across the brow of the man, the blow knocking the cap off his head. The man's hand went to his face, blood seeping through his fingers immediately and he stumbled back against the wall. Potter flipped the gun in the air and caught it on the half turn, so that he held it by the barrel. He moved forward...--Barry Forshaw, Good Books To Read 2016 .
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