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100 1 Pelecanos, George P.,|eauthor.
245 14 The martini shot|h[OverDrive/Libby electronic resource]|ba
novella and stories /|cGeorge Pelecanos.
264 1 New York :|bLittle, Brown and Company,|c2015.
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505 0 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.
520 "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"--
|cProvided by publisher.
520 "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"--
|cProvided by publisher.
533 Electronic reproduction.|bNew York|cLittle, Brown and
Company|d2015|nAvailable via World Wide Web.
655 7 Electronic books.|2local
700 12 Pelecanos, George P.,|eauthor.|tConfidential informant.
710 2 OverDrive, Inc.,|edistributor.
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