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Book SynopsisEvery man has his dark side... Spero Lucas confronts his own in an explosive thriller from the writer of the award-winning THE WIRE.
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?
Trade ReviewPowerful - 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
