King Suckerman |
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Author:
| Pelecanos, George.p |
Series title: | Antisocial Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-440-22595-9 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Dell |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $7.99 |
Book Description:
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The time is 1976.nbsp;nbsp;Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track.nbsp;nbsp;The hot new superfly flick
King Suckerman is coming to neighborhood theaters.nbsp;nbsp;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.nbsp;nbsp; 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.nbsp;nbsp;Walking into a drug...
More DescriptionThe time is 1976.nbsp;nbsp;Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track.nbsp;nbsp;The hot new superfly flick King Suckerman is coming to neighborhood theaters.nbsp;nbsp;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.nbsp;nbsp;
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.nbsp;nbsp;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.nbsp;nbsp;The ex-con is soon spilling blood to get to the cash.nbsp;nbsp;The dealer is scheming to get his girl back.nbsp;nbsp;And two knockaround guys named Clay and Karras are reaching a pivotal moment--the time to take a stand, go straight, and get justice.nbsp;nbsp;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.