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Feb 5, 2024 · Keren Carrión/NPR. It was August 2009 when the police raided writer George Pelecanos' home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., with a no-knock warrant. He was performing his ...
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Feb 5, 2024 · It was August 2009 when the police raided writer George Pelecanos' home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., with a no-knock warrant. He was performing his daily ritual of ...
- Andrew Limbong
George P. Pelecanos (born February 18, 1957) is an American author, producer and television writer. Many of his 20 books are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. On television, he frequently collaborates with David Simon, writing multiple episodes of Simon's HBO series The Wire and Treme, and ...
Buy Owning Up: From the writer/producer on The Wire, The Deuce and We Own This City by Pelecanos, George (ISBN: 9781398721173) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Feb 5, 2024 · This cover image released by Mulholland shows “Owning Up” by George Pelecanos. (Mulholland Books via AP) Although George Pelecanos has devoted much of his energy toward writing for television in recent years (“The Wire,” “The Duce,” “We Own This City”), he has continued to produce first-rate crime novels set in his native ...
- BRUCE DESILVA
Jan 6, 2015 · Pelecanos is now a successful crime novelist who sets his stories in D.C.'s neighborhoods. His new book, The Martini Shot, is a collection of short stories and a novella about a TV writer and ...
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Feb 5, 2024 · It was August 2009 when the police raided writer George Pelecanos’ home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C., with a no-knock warrant. He was performing his daily ritual of sitting on the couch reading The Washington Post when he saw cars enter the driveway. “I saw these guys wearing black and holding automatic rifles and ...