false<![CDATA[The Night Gardener]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158292301m/1620.jpg162016The haunting story of three cops,one good, one bad, one broken and the murder that reunites them in a showdown decades in the making. Gus Ramone is good police, a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the cities Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa, whose body has been found in a community garden. The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone worked as a patrol cop 20 years earlier, when he and his partner, Dan Doc Holiday, assisted a legendary detective named T.C. Cook. The series of murders, all involving local teenage victims, was never solved. In the years since, Holiday has left the force under a cloud of morals charges. Cook has retired, but he has never stopped agonizing about the Night Gardener killings. The new case draws the three men together, re-igniting the love, regret, and anger that once burned between them, and old ghosts walk once more as they try to lay to rest the monster who has stalked their dreams.1065021882006The Night Gardenertotal:785|5:104|4:340|3:251|2:81|1:9|7852804114714954falsefalseThu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009Tue Jul 15 07:48:59 -0700 2008Thu Apr 30 21:46:40 -0700 2009
Lush Life, to have exhausted all episodes of The Wire, and to know that richard price won't write another epic for another few years (he ain't fast, that man). in fact, a quick perusal of his w...more...]]>
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George Pelecanos is one of the writers of The Wire and The Night Gardener, while not actually set in the same universe (as we'd say in the scifi world), feels very much The Wire-esque. Of course, Pelecanos has been writing these sorts of books for longer than The Wire has been on the air, so I supp...more...]]>
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Raymond Chandler. The Night Gardener was published last year, but I have a feeling that it will prove to be a classic and its author, George Pelecanos, held up as an equal in the craft to writ...more...]]>
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Author: George Pelecanos
ISBN: 978-0-316-05650-2
Pages: 372
Release Date: August 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Genre: Crime Fiction
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Publisher: Gus Ramone is "good police," a ...more...]]>
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The book opens with glimpse at a crime scene in a community garden in Washington D.C. in 1985 where Pelecanos introduces three key detectives. T.C. Cook, a sergeant with 24 years on the force, known as "The Mission Man" with a 90% closure rate. Dan Holiday, known as Doc, is ...more...]]>
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George P. Pelecanos before I became obsessed with The Wire (where he was a writer/producer), I hadn't really read him. He's typically categorized with Richard Price, who try as I might I just can't read (& no, I'm not really sure why). I think it was this pairing in my mind that...more...]]>
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The Wire. i have always maintained that that tv show "read" more like a novel than it did a typical tv show. It had characters with depth, there were no good guys and bad guys only people who were varying shades of grey. It had layers and a definite...more...]]>
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In this 13th novel, George Pelecanos returns to the gritty streets of Washington, D.C.__a far cry from Georgetown and Capitol Hill__at the top of his game. Critics agree that Night Gardener transcends the crime-novel genre. While it contains whodunit elements, it's much more about crime, criminal mo...more...]]>
20falsefalseFri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009Mon Feb 23 09:04:08 -0800 2009Mon Mar 09 10:25:29 -0700 20091 What I liked about this audio book is that Pelacanos portrays Washington, D.C. in a positive light despite the criminal elements. It is easy to negatively stereotype the...more...]]>
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Cut to 2005 - case still open and another kid gets killed - Asa, who happens to be one of the detective's son's friends. This case ends up getting the 3 officers back together...one of which is retired, one had ...more...]]>
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Clockers I can recommend Pelecanos for you.
I've not seen The Wir...more...]]>
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