K E M. (Rampallion) reviewed on 8/11/2005 + 158 more book reviews

Crime novel set in Washington, D.C. in 1976. Lots of atmosphere--you find out what kinds of songs played on the radio, what kind of shoes people wore, how much breakfast at a diner cost, and what a close-range buckshot head wound looks like. George Pelecanos has created his own world of drug dealers, record-store clerks, police, and thieves.

Pelecanos has also written several episodes of the HBO series "The Wire," so if you like that, you'll probably like this too.

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