What It Was: Deluxe Slipcase Edition

PELECANOS, George P.

ISBN 10: 0316209538 / ISBN 13: 9780316209533

Published by Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown and Company, United States of America, 2012

About this Item

First Edition, First Printing of this Deluxe Edition that is Signed by the Author. Slipcase has black cover with gilt emblam on the front, volume has mustard coloured cloth cover with a black outlined image of a ahnd holding a gun on the fron and a ring on the reverse.Condition: slipcase has VERY minor shelf wear, the volume looks unread and Like New,

Seller Inventory # 013530

Bibliographic Details

• Title: What It Was: Deluxe Slipcase Edition
• Publisher: Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown and Company, United States of America
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0316209538
• ISBN 13: 9780316209533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Without Dust Wrapper (As Issue
• Weight: 630 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way.

Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.

About the Author

George Pelecanos is the author of several highly praised and bestselling novels, including The Cut, What It Was, The Way Home, The Turnaround, and The Night Gardener. He is also an independent-film producer, an essayist, and the recipient of numerous international writing awards. He was a producer and Emmy-nominated writer for The Wire and currently writes for the acclaimed HBO series Treme. He lives in Maryland.