04444cam a2200373 4500 286394584 TxAuBib 20170301120000.0 ||||||s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780446619738 0446619736 B001J2UVMK Amazon d8167268-e5f0-442b-8561-80b122af4593 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 196238 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Pelecanos, George P. Right as Rain [Libby eBook] : Derek Strange and Terry Quinn Series, Book 1. Grand Central Publishing, 2008. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1406kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>Starred review from February 1, 2001<br /> Nearly a decade after Pelecanos (Shame the Devil; Nick's Trip) introduced Nick Stefanos to the private eye scene, the hard-boiled specialist has come up with a new urban gumshoe who's just as tantalizing to watch in action. Derek Strange, a black ex-cop in his mid-50s, walks the same Washington, D.C., streets as Stefanos, yet does so with far more experience under his belt. In his debut, Strange is hired to answer nagging questions about the death of black police officer Chris Wilson, who was killed by another cop in a shootout. Police investigators cleared Terry Quinn, the white cop who killed Wilson, but Strange soon discovers several hidden issues that may put a different spin on the case. Quinn confirms that he shot Wilson in self-defense, but admits he remains disturbed by the actions of the other people present at the scene of the conflict. Strange enlists his aid in the investigation and the case takes both men deep into the worlds of drug dealing, police corruption and racism. The plot rolls along in a workmanlike, almost predictable fashion. Yet as is usually the case with Pelecanos, it's the characters who give the story the gritty, dark twists that have become the author's trademark. The cast is wonderfully varied, yet Pelecanos also manages to capture the essence of most of his characters with just a few descriptive licks. It's Strange, however, who steals the show. He's a mature man with a highly defined sense of who he isDan aging private eye who knows that his best weapons these days are his wits and wisdom. (Feb. 6) Forecast: A new Pelecanos series hero is big news in the noir world. British, Italian, French and Japanese rights have already been sold, and a five-city author tour will start sales rolling in the U.S.</p>. Publisher's Weekly. Derek Strange is a black ex-cop in Washington D.C. who now makes a living running his own private detective agency. He is hired to investigate the killing of an off-duty black policeman by a white police officer -- a killing that was supposedly accidental, but that has opened difficult questions about racism on the force. In the course of that investigation the white officer, Terry Quinn, becomes Strange's friend and then his partner. Together they try to uncover what really happened that night, when Quinn came upon a confusing and treacherous crime scene. Along the way they confront the kingpins of a flourishing drug trade and some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-02-28 23:00:02. http://slc.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=d8167268-e5f0-442b-8561-80b122af4593 https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/D81/672/68/RightasRain9780446549295.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D8167268-E5F0-442B-8561-80B122AF4593&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/D81/672/68/RightasRain9780446549295.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D8167268-E5F0-442B-8561-80B122AF4593&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0017-1/D81/672/68/RightasRain9780446549295.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D8167268-E5F0-442B-8561-80B122AF4593&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)