| Shame the Devil Contributor(s): Pelecanos, George P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0440236355 ISBN-13: 9780440236351 Publisher: Dell OUR PRICE: $6.75 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 2001 Annotation: The boys are back in town Frank Farrow is a natural-born killer. Roman Otis is a fine-looking crooner who does his killing on the side. On a hot D.C. afternoon Frank and Roman hit a pizza shop called May's. When the hit was over, four people were executed. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. And when the sirens stopped wailing and the killers vanished into the heat, dozens of lives were shattered forever. Now it's three years later, and Dimitri Karras, who lost a son, is starting to live again. But Dimitri's old acquaintance, a P.I. named Nick Stefanos, has just unburied the past--by discovering the killers' identity. Suddenly the second act of a crime story is about to be told. Because the May's pizza parlor killers are coming back into town: where they'll be greeted with open arms, broken hearts, and at least one loaded gun. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Crime |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Antisocial |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 4.44" W x 6.92" (0.42 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The boys are back in town Frank Farrow is a natural-born killer. Roman Otis is a fine-looking crooner who does his killing on the side. On a hot D.C. afternoon Frank and Roman hit a pizza shop called May's. When the hit was over, four people were executed. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. And when the sirens stopped wailing and the killers vanished into the heat, dozens of lives were shattered forever. Now it's three years later, and Dimitri Karras, who lost a son, is starting to live again. But Dimitri's old acquaintance, a P.I. named Nick Stefanos, has just unburied the past--by discovering the killers' identity. Suddenly the second act of a crime story is about to be told. Because the May's pizza parlor killers are coming back into town: where they'll be greeted with open arms, broken hearts, and at least one loaded gun. |