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Shame the Devil

A Novel

by George P. Pelecanos

Book Description
A stunning new hard-boiled thriller by the novelist GQ calls "the coolest writer in America."

Expanding on the extraordinary reception of King Suckerman, a finalist for the Golden Dagger Award, and The Sweet Forever, named by PW as one of the notable books of 1998, Shame the Devil is George Pelecanos as his potent best: a novel with the most extravagantly evil criminals this side of Elmore Leonard and with heroes as real as any being written today.

Shame the Devil opens with a restaurant robbery gone awry in Washington, D.C. Several workers are shot in cold blood, the gunman's brother is killed by police, a young boy is run over by the getaway car. Victims and their relatives gather together in the aftermath, attempting to find a way past their grief. Except one: the gunman is determined to avenge, not grieve, his lost brother - by killing every person involved in his death.

Shame the Devil captures D.C. as only "the Zola of Washington" (PW) could, bringing together characters whose survival readers will care about desperately. This is a breathtaking book - vivid, fast, hard, moral - by a writer hailed as "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane).

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