Derek Strange & Terry Quinn Série

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1. Odvrácená tvář města

   • George P. Pelecanos

   • 301 stránek
   • 11 hodin čtení

   Odvrácená tvář města je dech beroucím čtením o nebezpečném pronikání do temných rodinných tajemství a krevní mstě na odvrácené straně Washingtonu, D.C. – na té straně města, kam se politici a diplomaté nikdy neodváží vkročit. Derek Strange, bývalý policista a majitel detektivní agentury Strange Investigations, dostává nejnovější případ: při noční přestřelce zabije policista svého kolegu. Matka mrtvého policisty požádá Strange, aby smrt jejího syna objasnil. Strange tak proniká do nejtemnějších vrstev washingtonského podsvětí, kde platí jiná pravidla, než v civilizovaném světě, a kde lidský život nemá prakticky žádnou cenu. Společně s Terry Quinnem, policistou, který má údajně smrt kolegy na svědomí, jsou konfrontováni s nemilosrdným obchodem s drogami a korupcí přímo v policejním sboru.

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2. Hell to Pay

   • George P. Pelecanos

   • 399 stránek
   • 14 hodin čtení

   Hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who has run away from home and started working as a prostitute, Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are forced to confront a dangerous adversary in pimp Worldwide Wilson.

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3. Soul Circus

   • George P. Pelecanos

   • 385 stránek
   • 14 hodin čtení

   Bleak, gritty and moving, Soul Circus superbly brings to life a devastating story of life and death in Washington's black ghettos. Private Investigator Derek Strange and his partner, Terry Quinn, are running a detective business in the seedy underbelly of Washington, DC when they are approached by a young man asking them to find his girlfriend who has gone missing. And so Strange and Quinn find her. Just another day? Not quite. In the grimy underworld inhabited by Strange, nothing is that simple. For Strange and Quinn's efforts have led to a young mother being brutally murdered--a devastating discovery that causes them both to question the morality by which they live. And yet at the same time they need to continue the search for another missing girl, a teenage runaway who shows up in a porn video. And who hasn't been seen since. Step by step, Strange and his partner are drawn into the darkness, confronting gunrunners, crime lords, drug dealers, and ordinary people caught up in the ruthless violence of the business. Soul Circus is a heart-stopping thriller that could only have been written by George Pelecanos, the writer who "has gone from cult favorite to acknowledged master" ( Booklist ).

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4. Hard Revolution

   • George P. Pelecanos

   It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest and the ghettos of Washington DC seethe with anger. In the middle of this powder-keg is thrust a young black cop, barely out of school himself. Derek Strange believes passionately that he can make a difference, but his friends and family think he's a traitor and a patsy of the white establishment. Memphis, Tennessee. And black America rises as one to condemn the slaying of their hero. For one week, it seems that the whole country will fall. And Derek, his brother, his father, his mother and his whole community find themselves at the heart of a battle for the heart and soul of the new world.

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5. What It Was

   • George P. Pelecanos

   • 272 stránek
   • 10 hodin čtení

   Washington, D.C., 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 fuelled 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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