The Sweet Forever
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
It's 1986 and Washington DC is being torn apart by the cocaine trade. The Mayor is too busy chasing coke and hookers to care, and the police force is manned by corrupt rednecks like Richard 'King' Tutt. Down in the neighborhoods, black children are shooting each other over nickel bags and the outside world just doesn't care. The only man prepared to do anything about it is Marcus Clay whose new record store - Real Right Records - is in the heart of the ghetto. Business is okay. What isn't okay is that his wife has thrown him out and his best friend, Dimitri Karras, is hitting the recreational substances way too hard.
The real deal; a dirty, human slice of raw American life... Pelecanos has joined James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block at the high table of contemporary crime greats * The Times *
Volcanic, violent, exhilarating, it is also poignant and savagely tender... Gritty and flawlessly paced, this is the finest novel I've read this year -- Dennis Lehane
Pelecanos is a star... Tough, streetwise, hip, cool, with a soundtrack of classic soul and rock. What more do you need to know? * Independent on Sunday *
ISBN: 9781852427368
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm
Weight: 216g
304 pages
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