From Publishers Weekly
With a soft, unemotional delivery worthy of the late Jack Webb, Pelecanos puts a cool, effectively dramatic vocal sheen on a novel that is arguably among his best. The initially straightforward police procedural quickly evolves into an emotionally complex tale of three Washington, D.C., cops who in 1985 were on the trail of a serial killer known as the Night Gardener. The killer stopped before he was caught. Twenty years later, that lack of closure has its effect on the trio. Gus Ramone, now a member of the department's Violent Crime Branch, is assigned a murder case that suggests the Gardener has returned. His former rookie partner, Dan "Doc" Holiday, booted from the force for impropriety, finds key information about the killing and takes it to T.C. Cook, the original detective on the case, who, in spite of retirement and a recent stroke, continues to hope the Gardener can be harvested. Using subtle changes in pitch and pace, Pelecanos suggests Ramone's low-key intensity, Holiday's edgy resentment and Cook's weary but dogged dedication as the three men move toward a conclusion that is strikingly original and far from the predictably neat wrapup of less ambitious works.
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From AudioFile
A body is found in a garden in Washington, and the teenaged victim's first name spells the same forwards as back. For certain members of the police force, both past and present, the circumstances recall an unsolved string of murders twenty years earlier. But while homicide is the putative plot of Pelecanos's work, his real interests are far more universal: the consequences of one's choices, good and bad. Richard Davidson's voice is all gravel, the better to achieve the gravitas and ruefulness that Pelecanos brings to bear in this somber novel in which three cops, two rookies with different characters and aspirations and a legendary detective--all summoned to one of the early killings--are unexpectedly reunited after the last. M.O. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine--
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by George Pelecanos
by George P. Pelecanos
by George P. Pelecanos
by George Pelecanos
by George P. Pelecanos
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