PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
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, DC.
Powerful - SHORTLIST Gripping ... intensely moving - EVENING STANDARD Lean, stirring, knife-edged - NEW YORK TIMES Pelecanos displays a ferocious understanding of street reality and an empathy for America's downtrodden - GUARDIAN George Pelecanos is a stunningly good chronicler of the mean streets of Washington DC ... For anyone who has somehow missed out on Pelecanos, he is up there with Elmore Leonard and even Chandler for street dialogue and inner city settings, and there is always a pleasing moral undertow to his work - DAILY MAIL
