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Drama city : a novel

Lorenzo Brown loves his work. In his job as an officer for the Humane Society, he cruises the city streets, looking for dogs that are being mistreated - underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in making their lives better. And that pride helps Lorenzo resist the pull of easier money doing the kind of work that got him a recent prison bid. Rachel Lopez loves her work, too. By day she is a parole officer, helping people - Lorenzo Brown among them - along a path to responsibility and advancement. At night she heads for the city's hotel bars, where she can always find a man who will let her act out her damage. She loses herself in sex and drink and more. But Rachel's nights are taking a toll on her days. Lorenzo knows the signs. The trouble is, he truly needs her right now. There's an eruption coming in the streets he left behind, the kind of territorial war that takes down everyone even near it. Lorenzo needs every shred of support he can get to keep from being sucked back into that battleground. He reaches out to Rachel - but she may be too far gone to help either of them. Writing with the grace and force that have earned him praise as "the poet laureate of the crime world," George Pelecanos has created a novel about two scarred and fallible people who must navigate one of life's most brutal passages. It is an unforgettable, moving, even shocking story that will leave no reader unchanged.

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  • "Lorenzo Brown loves his work. In his job as an officer for the Humane Society, he cruises the city streets, looking for dogs that are being mistreated - underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in making their lives better. And that pride helps Lorenzo resist the pull of easier money doing the kind of work that got him a recent prison bid. Rachel Lopez loves her work, too. By day she is a parole officer, helping people - Lorenzo Brown among them - along a path to responsibility and advancement. At night she heads for the city's hotel bars, where she can always find a man who will let her act out her damage. She loses herself in sex and drink and more. But Rachel's nights are taking a toll on her days. Lorenzo knows the signs. The trouble is, he truly needs her right now. There's an eruption coming in the streets he left behind, the kind of territorial war that takes down everyone even near it. Lorenzo needs every shred of support he can get to keep from being sucked back into that battleground. He reaches out to Rachel - but she may be too far gone to help either of them. Writing with the grace and force that have earned him praise as "the poet laureate of the crime world," George Pelecanos has created a novel about two scarred and fallible people who must navigate one of life's most brutal passages. It is an unforgettable, moving, even shocking story that will leave no reader unchanged."@en
  • "Lorenzo Brown is fresh out of the clink. The former drug enforcer has vowed to go straight and found himself a job as an officer for the Humane Society. He patrols downtown DC looking for ill-treated pets - but in the course of his day repeatedly comes face-to-face with his old life. Rachel Lopez is an attractive young probation officer. Brown is one of her clients but also fast becoming one of her friends - perhaps he is one that can be saved. Nigel Johnson is a smart young drug-dealer on the make. He has plans to make a lot of money AND stay alive to spend it. He already runs his neighbourhood but doesn't realise that he stands on the brink of a vicious turf war which could destroy him. From these basic players, Pelecanos weaves an amazing new novel, one that defines a generation of black, Hispanic and white Americans fighting - literally - for their lives."@en
  • "In de getto's van Washington worden een voormalige drugsdealer en zijn drinkende reclasseringsambtenaar geconfronteerd met een drugsbendeoorlog."
  • "Lorenzo Brown hopes that his new job as an officer for the Humane Society will keep him out of trouble and out of prison; however, his parole officer, Rachel Lopez, seems to be heading for trouble, just when Lorenzo needs her the most."
  • "In the author's 13th novel, "dog man" Lorenzo Brown, a street investigator for the Humane Society, has recently completed an eight-year stretch in prison for narcotics and is determined to stay clean and free. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo's parole officer, spends her days chasing down clients and her nights getting drunk in bars and having rough sex with strangers. The ignition point for the violence that eventually engulfs these two fully realized, attractive characters--characteristics that in Pelecanos's world mark them as quite probably doomed--is a minor argument between local drug kingpins that inflates into a series of revenge killings.--From Publisher's Weekly."@en
  • "Deux êtres marqués par la vie, Lorenzo Brown, un Noir qui a passé huit ans en prison pour trafic de drogue, et Rachel Lopez, contrôleuse judiciaire qui aide les détenus à leur sortie de prison, doivent tout faire pour simplement survivre dans un univers où la drogue et la violence sont le lot quotidien de tous à Washington D.C."
  • "Hoping to start over after serving eight years in prison, Lorenzo Brown returns to the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of his youth to take a job as a Humane Society officer but finds challenges from a local drug boss."
  • "George Pelecanos returns to contemporary Washington DC for his most powerful crime novel yet, Lorenzo Brown is fresh out of the clink. The former drug enforcer has vowed to go straight and found himself a job as an officer for the Humane Society."
  • ""Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay straight. After eight years in prison on a drug charge, he's come 'uptown'--back to the Washington, DC neighborhood where he grew up, where his old cohorts still work their corners and their angles, trying to get ahead and stay alive. But Lorenzo's had enough of the life: Now he has a job as a Humane Society officer, policing animal abusers and protecting the abused. In the dangerous streets he used to menace, Lorenzo plays a part in maintaining order--and it's a role reversal some of his former friends don't appreciate. Rachel Lopez, Lorenzo's parole officer, tries to help him, even as she battles her own demons and excesses. Trying to stay one step ahead of her troubled past is a daily struggle. It looks like they both might make it, until a malevolent young killer, working for the powerful local drug boss, changes everything with one violent act. Now Lorenzo finds himself caught between the light and dark sides of the street, struggling to stay legit--or throw everything away to exact revenge."--Publisher's description."@en

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  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Americké romány"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Roman policier"
  • "Large type books"@en
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  • "Fiction"

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  • "Drama stad"
  • "Il guardiano del buio"
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  • "Drama city : roman"
  • "Drama City : roman"
  • "Drama City [sound recording]"
  • "Prestonica nasilja"
  • "Drama city : a novel"
  • "Drama city : a novel"@en
  • "Drama city a novel"@en
  • "Drsné město"
  • "Drama city a novel (Sound Recording)"@en
  • "Drama city"@sv
  • "Drama city"@es
  • "Drama city"@en
  • "Drama city"
  • "Drama City"@en
  • "Drama City"

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