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Title
The martini shot and other stories

Author
George P. Pelecanos

format
Hardback

Publisher
Orion

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20150101

Description

A brand-new collection of stories from one of America's hottest crime writers.

A collection of stories, mostly gritty low-level crime stories set on Washington DC's mean streets. THE MARTINI SHOT itself is set in the world of TV, featuring a scriptwriter on a popular cop show. When a member of the crew is murdered, the screenwriter decides to track down the perpetrators himself, to see if as a writer he can do more than just talk the talk.

George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C. in 1957.
He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and woman's shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992.

Pelecanos is the author of twenty books set in and around Washington, D.C.: A Firing Offense, Nick's Trip, Shoedog, Down By the River Where the Dead Men Go, The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever, Shame the Devil, Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus, Hard Revolution, Drama City, The Night Gardener, The Turnaround, The Way Home, The Cut, What It Was, The Double, and The Martini Shot. He has been the recipient of the Raymond Chandler award in Italy, the Falcon award in Japan, and the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir in France.
Hell to Pay and Soul Circus were awarded the 2003 and 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
The Turnaround won the Hammett Prize for literary excellence in the field of crime writing.
His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Esquire, and the collections Unusual Suspects, Best American Mystery Stories of 1997, Measures of Poison, Best American Mystery Stories of 2002, Men From Boys, and Murder at the Foul Line.
He served as editor on the collections D.C. Noir and D.C. Noir 2: The Classics, as well as The Best Mystery Stories of 2008.
He is an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, GQ, Sight and Sound, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications.
Esquire magazine called him "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world."
In Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote that Pelecanos is "perhaps the greatest living American crime writer."
Pelecanos would like to point out that Mr. King used the word "perhaps."

Pelecanos was a producer, writer, and story editor for the acclaimed HBO dramatic series, The Wire, winner of the Peabody Award, the AFI Award, and the Edgar.
He was nominated for an Emmy for his writing on that show.
He was a writer and co-producer on the World War II miniseries The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg, and most recently worked as a writer and Executive Producer on the HBO series Treme.

Pelecanos lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
He is at work on his next novel.

Type
BOOK

Edition
Short stories

Keyword Index
Detective and mystery stories, American.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
295

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