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Title: Drama City

Author: George Pelecanos

Narrator: JD Jackson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Best-selling author George Pelecanos takes listeners into the mean streets of Washington D.C. in his latest thought-provoking work of crime fiction. Lorenzo Brown has just been released from prison. Once the member of a brutal gang, he has vowed to change his life for the better. But his new job brings him face-to-face with the members of his old crew on a daily basis - and now it looks like he may be caught in the midst of a brewing turf war.

Critic Reviews:

[Pelecanos] is one of todays most stellar writers of hard-boiled crime fiction. (The New York Times)

Members Reviews:

quickly devoured

A fast read. Be warned though, this book does have some unflinchingly brutal dog-fight passages, and that kind of thing can be a lotta no fun. But luckily Pelecanos takes some satisfying shots at the culture, calling out posers who think of a scary dog as a status symbol, as well as the idiotic `90s dog fighting boom, where everyone who wasn't fighting a pit bull certainly wanted you to think they were. In fact, even though this book was published in 2005, it feels very grounded in the `90s, full of that era's music, sometimes in flashbacks, sometimes not. The main characters are memorable, too. The two major players, slow burning ex-con Lorenzo and Rachel (day and night versions), are both introduced efficiently and effectively, and the author does wonders with Lorenzo early on by having the reader ride along on his thankless day job for the Humane Society, as he works to convince deadbeat dog owners to improve their beasts' low standard of living. The plight of the canines in the book mirrors the humans, of course ("You can't save every animal."), and even though the main plot regarding a childhood friend's drug dealing empire circling the drain and the young, hot-headed psycho all headed for a showdown is well-worn territory, I still stuck around for the finale. As far as the prose, it's suitably rough, slang-ridden, and unpolished but never distracting, although there was that unintentionally hilarious metonymy where the author kept referring to a particular body part as a woman's "sex." But it is a confident book, so much so that you may get the feeling Pelecanos wrote it one-handed. Quickly devoured.

Pelecanos and the underbelly of Washington D.C.

Pelecanos's propensity to "get cute" with dialogue is refreshing because of its uniqueness at first, and this wears thin over the course of an entire book. It is enlightening (especially in light of Black Lives Matter/Dallas police executions, etc.) to have Pelecanos vividly describe the mindset of criminals and the very few Good Guys in his books, as well as the underlying subculture of the Washington D.C. area. I get the impression, for example, that I could make a small fortune in scrap metal should I come up with a way to recover all the firearms thrown into the Anacostia river.

City Drama

I'm a Pelecanos fan, but I hadn't read one in many years. I came across this title recently and decided to buy it. It's a suspenseful, authentic crime drama set in and around Washington, D.C. It didn't disappoint.

Tighter than Tight

My brother had sworn up and down for years that Pelecanos was the real thing, and this was the first book I picked out, somewhat randomly, to read.