The Double - (Spero Lucas) by George P Pelecanos (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting-- The Double --that Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her, a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call. Lucas knows how to get what he wants, whether it's a thief on the run or a married woman. But now, in the midst of a steamy, passionate love affair that he knows can't last and in pursuit of a dangerous killer who's got nothing to lose, Lucas must confront his own dark side-- and it may just be his undoing"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Every man has his dark side . . . Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers.</b> <p/> The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting -- The Double -- Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her -- a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call. <p/> Lucas is a man who knows how to get what he wants, whether it's a thief on the run -- or a married woman. In the midst of a steamy, passionate love affair that he knows can't last, in pursuit of a dangerous man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, Lucas is forced to decide what kind of man he is -- and how far he'll go to get what he wants.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>It's astonishing all the good stuff Pelecanos can pack into one unpretentious book: meaty substance, multiple story lines, vital characters, choice dialogue and all those descriptive details ... that make the story so rich.--<b>Marilyn Stasio</b>, <i><b>New York Times Book Review</b></i><br><br>Pelecanos' work has antecedents in the books and films of Richard Stark (Donald Westlake), John D. MacDonald, Elmore Leonard and Don Siegel but also a spooky magic all his own -- thanks to the utter believability he maintains.--<b>Tom Nolan</b>, <i><b>Wall Street Journal</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>George Pelecanos</b> is the bestselling author of twenty novels set in and around Washington, D.C. He is also an independent film producer, and a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO series <i>The Wire</i>, <i>Treme</i>, and <i>The Deuce</i>. He lives in Maryland.
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