Author Q&A
Pelecanos returns with his second novel starring Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, a grizzled PI and an erratic ex-cop. Quinn and Strange deal with the usual detritus of Washington, the world's most violent city - a bent cop and a missing teenage-girl-turned-hooker - but then the real crime comes into focus. Lorenze Wilder has made an enemy of one of the hardest street criminals around and he will be made to pay. But when the reckoning comes, Lorenze is not the only victim and the jaded partners must become unlikely avenging angels for a soul they thought they had saved...