Larger	Hell to Pay: A Novel Author: George P. Pelecanos
	Book Information Publisher: Little, Brown Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 6 ISBN-13: 9780316695060 - ISBN-10: 0316695068 Publication Date: 3/2002 Pages: 288 Book Reviews

erek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of investigators who made their bestselling debut in Right As Rain, 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 D.C.'s most brutal 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 lethal Worldwide Wilson.

George Pelecanos's novels have earned the highest praise from crime fiction's greatest writers: "Terrific" (Elmore Leonard), "Powerful" (Michael Connelly), "The best" (Harlan Coben). This story of revenge and morality in a world with few rules makes Hell to Pay another Pelecanos masterpiece.