A Firing Offense (Five Star Title)

A Firing Offense (Five Star Title)

by George Pelecanos (Author)

Synopsis

As the advertising director of Nutty Nathan's, 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 find the kid, Nick says he'll try. A Firing Offense, Nick Stefanos' debut, shows why, as Barry Gifford puts it, 'To miss out on Pelecanos would be criminal.'

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: Main
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 26 Aug 1999

ISBN 10: 1852427159
ISBN 13: 9781852427153

Media Reviews
A contemporary classic... A Firing Offense is full of virtuoso scenes of imaginative sex and substance abuse, suspenseful action, and brooding meditation on a newly lost generation * Washington Post *
George Pelecanos has broken with tradition in so many ways, it feels as if he has launched a category of his own...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.