Shoedog

Does anyone write moral ambiguity as perfectly as George Pelecanos? Does anyone move as fluidly between great TV drama and great crime fiction as he does? Pelecanos is a rarity -- and as a reader and viewer, I am so glad he does what he does.......more

George Pelecanos has mentioned before in interviews that with Shoedog, one of his earliest novels, he wanted to write a no-frills noir thriller that was a send-up to the old paperback pulps that could be read in one afternoon. With me, he succeeded. Shoedog starts off blazing, with a tour-de-force 2......more

Shoedog! You know, for a book named Shoedog, I was really hoping that it'd actually be about the man Shoedog instead of some random guy named Constantine who I've never heard of before. Although the back of my book claims that because I love Nick Stefanos I should also love Constantine, he failed to......more

Shoedog is Pelecanos’s pulp novel, a straightforward heist gone story. Of course he lingers on the characters more than other authors might, bringing some emotional weight to this romantic, gritty, and ultra violent tale of double crosses and revenge. This lacks the narrative genius of Sallis’s simi......more

I think even if I read this title myself, I would of been bored.......more