Shame the Devil
by George P. Pelecanos
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Dimitri Karras remembers the summer of 1995 like no other. That was the summer his five-year-old son died after a bloodthirsty robber named Frank Farrow ran him over in his getaway car. Now, three years later, Karras has healed considerably thanks to therapy. But when private investigator Nick Stephanos informs Karras that the killer is back in town, Karras' anger and grief return and inspire an intense tour of revenge. Loosely based on the real-life Starbucks murders that rattled Washington, DC in 1996 and remained unsolved for three years.
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Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Little Brown & Co |
Date 2000 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher Publishing Mills |
Date 2001 |
Price None Available |
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Publisher Dell Pub Co |
Date 2004 |
Price $2.42 |
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Publisher Notes
A restaurant robbery goes very wrong in Washington, D.C., leaving a number of employees dead, the gunman's brother killed by police, and a young boy run over by the getaway car, a situation that rapidly worsens as the gunman vows to avenge his brother by killing every person involved in his death. Reprint.
Media Reviews
"The resulting twisted adventure, heavy on complex characters, reminds me why GQ magazine called Pelecanos 'the coolest writer in America.'"
Customer Reviews
on Jul 23 2005, Morgan's BookStop said:
""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.""
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