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A Firing Offense (Mask noir)

A Firing Offense (Mask noir)

by George Pelecanos (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1997

    $3.33

  • Used

    Paperback 1999

    $3.26
Synopsis

As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's - The Miser Who Saves You Money! - Nick Stefanos knows all the tricks of the electronics business. Blow-out sales and shady deals were his life. When one of the stockboys disappears, it's not news: just another metalhead who went off chasing some dream of big money and easy living. But the kid reminded Nick of himself twelve years ago: an angry punk hooked on speed metal and the fast life. So when the boy's grandfather begs Nick to try to find the kid, Nick says he'll try. A Firing Offense, Nick Stefanos' debut, shows why George P. Pelecanos is a cult figure in U.S. crime writing, as Barry Gifford puts it, 'To miss out on Pelecanos would be criminal'.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 204
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 01 Mar 1997
ISBN 10: 1852425636
ISBN 13: 9781852425630

Media Reviews
A contemporary classic... Pelecanos is a fresh, new, utterly hardboiled voice. A Firing Offense is full of virtuoso scenes of imaginative sex and substance abuse, suspenseful action, and brooding meditation on a newly lost generation. * The Washington Post *
George Pelecanos has broken with tradition in so many ways, it feels as if he has launched a category of his own. Partly, it's his convincing evocation of an unfamiliar setting but mainly it's the feeling that we are definitely in the present - here is your first turn-of-the-century crime writer * Charlie Gillett *
Pelecanos puts together a slam-bang climax that contains all the requisite elements - action, tragedy, victory, and random death. It's a terrific start for a quality series. * Mostly Murder *
Author Bio
George P. Pelecanos is the author of eleven crime novels including the Nick Stefanos Trilogy and the Washington DC Quartet . Hell to Pay won the best novel of The Gumshoe Awards 2002. King Suckerman was shortlisted for the 1998 Crime Writers Association Golden Dagger Award. As an independent film producer, George Pelecanos has handled the movies of the Coen Brothers and other cutting edge movie mavericks.