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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Pelecanos, George P., author.     Subjects     Investigations -- Fiction.     Informers -- Fiction.     Immigrants -- Fiction.     Adoption -- Fiction.     Television cop shows -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Pelecanos, George P., author.       by title:      The martini shot : a...         MARC Display

The martini shot : a novella and stories / George Pelecanos. by Pelecanos, George P., author. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015. Subjects Investigations -- Fiction.   Informers -- Fiction.   Immigrants -- Fiction.   Adoption -- Fiction.   Television cop shows -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780316284370 (hbk.) : 0316284378 (hbk.) Description:  295 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  The confidential informant -- Chosen -- String music -- When you're hungry -- Miss Mary's room -- Plastic Paddy -- The dead their eyes implore us -- The martini shot. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Short stories and a novella from one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing citizens, George Pelecanos' characters are always engaged in a fight for their lives. They fight to advance or simply to survive; they fight against odds, against enemies, even against themselves. In this, his first collection of stories, the acclaimed novelist introduces readers to a vivid and eclectic cast of combatants. A seasoned claims investigator tracks a supposedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, only to be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An aging loser takes a last stab at respectability by becoming a police informant. A Greek-American couple adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family together, giving us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos' most beloved protagonists, Spero Lucas. In the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of the day, the one that comes before the liquor shots begin - we go behind the scenes of a television cop show, where a writer gets caught up in a drama more real than anything he could have conjured for a script. By turns heartbreaking and humane, brutal and funny, these finely constructed tales expose the violence and striving beneath the surface of any city and within any human heart. Tough, sexy, fast-paced, and crackling with energy, The Martini Shot is Pelecanos at his very best"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Mystery Pelecanos Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Pelecanos Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Pelecanos withdrawn Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Fiction Pelecanos Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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