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The Double

By: George Pelecanos

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Paperback | 29 July 2014 | Edition Number 1

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352 Pages

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2.3 x 12.9 x 19.6

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Spero Lucas is a young Iraq war vet now working as a PI in Washington DC. He's hired by a young woman to find a painting she lost after being scammed by a super-smooth con-artist. Spero tracks the painting down, but the con-artist is part of a team of ruthless thugs, and the woman who hired Spero is brutally attacked as a warning to stay away. The warning doesn't work. Spero is angry and he goes on the offensive, taking out the gang one by one. But where do Spero's remorseless killings sit on the morality scale? Is he defending an innocent woman? Or have his experiences of war turned him into a ruthless killer, no better than the crooks he's up against?

About the Author

George Pelecanos is an independent film producer, an essayist, the recipient of numerous international writing awards, a producer and an EMMY-nominated writer on the HBO hit series THE WIRE. He is the author of a bestselling series of crime novels set in and around Washington, DC.

Industry Reviews

Powerful - SHORTLIST

Gripping ... intensely moving - EVENING STANDARD

Lean, stirring, knife-edged - NEW YORK TIMES

Pelecanos displays a ferocious understanding of street reality and an empathy for America's downtrodden - GUARDIAN

George Pelecanos is a stunningly good chronicler of the mean streets of Washington DC ... For anyone who has somehow missed out on Pelecanos, he is up there with Elmore Leonard and even Chandler for street dialogue and inner city settings, and there is always a pleasing moral undertow to his work - DAILY MAIL

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