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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 · 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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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 ...
Jan 3, 2000 · Before the interview begins, Pelecanos fields a call about a deal with Sean "Puffy" Coombs's Bad Boy Films about bringing King Suckerman, Pelecanos's funk- and pot-fueled 1997 tribute to the ...
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 ...
- Andrew Limbong
33971095. Dewey Decimal. 813/.54 20. LC Class. PS3566.E354 B54 1996. The Big Blowdown is a 1996 crime novel written by George Pelecanos. It is set in Washington, D.C., and focuses on Peter Karras. It is the first of four books comprising the D.C. Quartet. The other books in this series are King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever and Shame the Devil.
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It is comprised of 4 novels in total, which were released between the years 1996 and 2000. The first book of this series was published under the title of ‘The Big Blowdown’. It was released by the Serpent’s Tail publication in the year 2011, after its initial release in 1996. Author Pelecanos has set the plot in the year 1946 in ...
