Shoedog, George Pelecanos
Shoedog, George Pelecanos
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Shoedog

Author: George Pelecanos

Narrator: Dan Woren

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2013


Synopsis

From "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world" (Esquire) comes this powerful early novel--the noirish story of how a Washington, D.C., liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to be a shoedog.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris

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

Goodreads review by Richard

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