Overview

Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is forty percent. A high-profile crime boss who has heard of Lucas's speciality hires him to find out who has been stealing from his operation. It's the biggest job Lucas has ever been offered, and he quickly gets a sense of what's going on. But before he can close in on what's been taken, he tangles with a world of men whose amorality and violence leave him reeling. Is any cut worth your family, your lover, your life? Spero Lucas is George Pelecanos's greatest creation, a young man making his place in the world one battle and one mission at a time. The first in a new series of thrillers featuring Spero Lucas, The Cut is the latest confirmation of why George Pelecanos is 'perhaps the greatest living crime writer.' (Stephen King)

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Author:   George Pelecanos
Publisher:   Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:   Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.405kg
ISBN:  

9781409114574

ISBN 10:   1409114570
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   25 August 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available  
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Derek writes: I really enjoy Pelecanos writing, although I do think that over the last few years hes been becoming more moral and a little mellower. Although the hard edge has softened, the great characters which drive his narrative are still there, and Spero Lucas is one of them. Spero has recently returned from Iraq, and has parlayed his muscle and his brain into a job as a private investigator for a powerful defense attorney. Generally speaking he finds things that are lost. For a cut - and Spero's cut is forty percent. When Spero does a small job for his attorney and gets a kid off a joy-riding charge, the kids father is grateful. He has another job for Spero, finding a lost parcel, but the lost parcel is a stolen drugs shipment and the father is a high-profile crime boss awaiting trial in prison. The guys who've been ripping off the drugs are about as a nasty, amoral, unwashed bunch as you'd ever hope not to meet. They're completely without scruples, and Spero realises that to deliver on his promise to return the missing drugs, he's going to have to meet their menace with menace and their violence with violence. And along the way, Spero will risk his family, his lover and his self respect. As always George Pelecanos delivers in terms of the location, but its the characters that set the book alight. Ricardo Holley is perfectly drawn as the small time hood with the big dreams who will corrupt all those around him, even his own son, the patrol cop Larry. His offsider Nance, who Holley has coerced into his drug theft sting is reluctant to escape from Holleys grasp, even though he wants to simply return his quiet car rebirthing racket; and the two hitters, typically Pelecanos drawn low-lifes, have no idea how deep they're in. But its the character of Spero, who shines through it all. Hes trying to do the right thing by his mom and his brother, trying to hold his new relationship together, but he's still conflicted by the enormity of his task. When the dust settles, some will be maimed, some will be dead, but Spero will hold his head high. Another cracking book from George Pelecanos.

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George Pelecanos is an independent film producer, an essayist, the recipient of numerous international writing awards, a producer and an EMMY-nominated writer on the HBO hit series THE WIRE. He is the author of a bestselling series of crime novels set in and around Washington, D.C.

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