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Indlæser... Shame the Devil: A Novel (original 2000; udgave 2000)af George P. Pelecanos
Work InformationShame the Devil af George P. Pelecanos (2000)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Good book this. Set in Washington DC in the late 1990s.Main character is Nick Stefanos a part time investigator. 4 people are murdered in an armed robbery one is a 5 year old boy. 3 years pass case isnt solved. The victims family run a support group every month. To summarise the father of the boy killed finds out who the fugitives are and goes after them, Nick tries to stop him. Justice is served. I really like George Pelecanos books just not the references to music. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Washington, D.C., 1995. What should have been a straightforward restaurant robbery goes horribly wrong. Several workers are shot in cold blood; the gunman's brother is killed by police; a young boy is run over by a careering getaway car. Three years pass. Victims and their relatives gather in the aftermath, still trying to come to terms with their grief. But gunman Frank Farrow has other ideas. Now the heat has died down, he is on his way back to Washington, determined to avenge his lost brother ... by killing everyone involved in his death. No library descriptions found. |
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I think what I like best about Shame the Devil is the way the author puts his characters in morally ambiguous situations and allows the story to follow a realistic path to its conclusion. You get a sense for what's going through Dimitri's mind as he faces his demons throughout the book, you sort of think you know what might happen, and then the author brings it home in a satisfying conclusion. You know who the bad guys are and who the good guys are, but the good guys aren't Boy Scouts. ( )