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What It Was

What It Was

Pelecanos, George P.

Paperback

Series: Derek Strange and Terry Quinn

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 0316209546
ISBN13: 9780316209540
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: Jan 23 2012
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
In this hard-boiled noir, former police officer turned private investigator Derek Strange's search for a lost ring leads him down a twisted path of crime and corruption--and on the chase for a dangerous killer.

Washington, DC, 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 fueled 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

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