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Derek Strange & Terry Quinn Serie

Questa serie segue una coppia di improbabili detective: Derek Strange, un uomo nero di successo e sicuro di sé, e Terry Quinn, un uomo bianco che a malapena si tiene a galla. Insieme, cercano giustizia nel crudo scenario di Washington D.C. Le loro visioni del mondo e metodi contrastanti portano spesso a svolte emozionanti e inaspettate. Le narrazioni sono piene di azione, suspense e commento sociale.

What It Was
Hard Revolution
Soul Circus
Hell to Pay
Right as rain

Ordine di lettura consigliato

  1. Right as rain

    • 352pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura

    The first in the excellent Strange and Quinn series from 'The coolest writer in America' GQ. Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous police force. As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city's flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel. In RIGHT AS RAIN George Pelecanos introduces a memorable pair of characters into the grittily real Washington DC landscape which has led to him being acclaimed as 'a great writer' THE TIMES

    Right as rain1
    3,9

  2. Hell to Pay

    • 399pagine
    • 14 ore di lettura

    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.

    Hell to Pay2
    3,9

  3. Soul Circus

    • 368pagine
    • 13 ore di lettura

    A young woman is brutally murdered and PIs Strange and Quinn are forced to confront their own part in the crime . . .

    Soul Circus3
    3,9

  4. Hard Revolution

    • 447pagine
    • 16 ore di lettura

    A rookie policeman in Washington, D.C. is surrounded by crimes that will make him the man he is eventually going to be.

    Hard Revolution4
    4,0

  5. What It Was

    • 272pagine
    • 10 ore di lettura

    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.

    What It Was5
    4,0