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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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2. www.wunc.org › 2024/02/05 › police-raided-georgePolice raided George Pelecanos' home. 15 years later, he's ...

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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 ...

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › George_PelecanosGeorge Pelecanos - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. www.amazon.co.uk › Owning-Up-writer-producer-DeuceOwning Up: From the writer/producer on The Wire, The Deuce ...

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   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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5. apnews.com › article › owning-up-george-pelecanosBook Review: George Pelecanos’ ‘Owning Up’ has elegant prose ...

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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 ...

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6. www.npr.org › 2015/01/06 › 375166711D.C. Author George Pelecanos Writes What He Knows In 'The ...

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   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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   Where does George Pelecanos read the Washington Post?

   • Writer George Pelecanos reads The Washington Post every morning in his home. 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.

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   Who is George Pelecanos?

   • Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for radio and the web. Crime fiction author and screenwriter George Pelecanos is known for his gritty realism. His latest short story collection takes that same unsparing look at his own past.

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   Who is Pete Pelecanos?

   • The episode focused on Marines on leave in Australia and featured a displaced Greek family in a prominent guest role. [ 34 ][ 35 ] Pelecanos saw the project as a chance to make a tribute to his father, Pete Pelecanos, who served as a Marine in the Philippines.

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   What is Pelecanos' 'the no-knock' about?

   • As personal as "The No-Knock" is, Pelecanos calls the title story in the collection his most autobiographical. It's about a kid in the 70s named Nikos who works a job where he gets in with a bad crowd, and eventually gets talked into breaking into a guy's house.

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   Did Pelecanos write a book about dogfighting?

   • In another interesting move, Pelecanos attached a CD to the book itself, emulating Michael Connelly who included a CD with his 2003 Harry Bosch book Lost Light. In 2005, Pelecanos saw another novel published, Drama City. This book revisited the examination of dogfighting begun in his book Hell To Pay.

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   When did Pelecanos leave 'right as rain'?

   • The Sweet Forever (1980s) and Shame the Devil (1990s) closed the quartet and Pelecanos retired Stefanos and the other characters that populated the novels. (Stefanos and other characters do reappear in subsequent works). In 2001, he introduced a new team of private detectives, Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, as the protagonists of Right as Rain.

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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 ...