Right As Rain

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous police force.

As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city's flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel.

In RIGHT AS RAIN George Pelecanos introduces a memorable pair of characters into the grittily real Washington DC landscape.

Short-listed for Macallan Gold Dagger for Fiction 2001

George Pelecanos lives in Washington DC with his wife and children. He also manages Circle Films, an independent production company responsible for films such as the Coen Brothers' Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink.

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerous police force.As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city's flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel.In RIGHT AS RAIN George Pelecanos introduces a memorable pair of characters into the grittily real Washington DC landscape.

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