| King Suckerman Revised Edition Contributor(s): Pelecanos, George P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0440225957 ISBN-13: 9780440225959 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: The time is 1976. Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track. The hot new superfly flick "King Suckerman is coming to neighborhood theaters. And Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of drugs and racial tension--an easy place to turn a wrong corner and land in a whole lot of trouble. That's what happens to Marcus Clay and Dimitri Karras when they cross paths with an ex-con and his gang of natural born killers. Walking into a drug deal gone south, Clay and Karras end up with a pile of money that isn't theirs...the sexy teenage girlfriend of the Italian dealer...and major trouble. The ex-con is soon spilling blood to get to the cash. The dealer is scheming to get his girl back. And two knockaround guys named Clay and Karras are reaching a pivotal moment--the time to take a stand, go straight, and get justice. Or maybe just sweet revenge. In this sizzling thriller, George Pelecanos writes with a firecracker in his prose, shooting sparks on every page and earning his place among the stars of crime fiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Crime - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Antisocial |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 4.24" W x 6.92" (0.30 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The time is 1976. Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track. The hot new superfly flick King Suckerman is coming to neighborhood theaters. And Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of drugs and racial tension--an easy place to turn a wrong corner and land in a whole lot of trouble. That's what happens to Marcus Clay and Dimitri Karras when they cross paths with an ex-con and his gang of natural born killers. Walking into a drug deal gone south, Clay and Karras end up with a pile of money that isn't theirs...the sexy teenage girlfriend of the Italian dealer...and major trouble. The ex-con is soon spilling blood to get to the cash. The dealer is scheming to get his girl back. And two knockaround guys named Clay and Karras are reaching a pivotal moment--the time to take a stand, go straight, and get justice. Or maybe just sweet revenge. In this sizzling thriller, George Pelecanos writes with a firecracker in his prose, shooting sparks on every page and earning his place among the stars of crime fiction. |