Right as Rain

Derek Strange is a black ex-cop in Washington D.C. who now makes a living running his own private detective agency. He is hired to investigate the killing of an off-duty black policeman by a white police officer -- a killing that was supposedly accidental, but that has opened difficult questions about racism on the force. In the course of that investigation the white officer, Terry Quinn, becomes Strange's friend and then his partner. Together they try to uncover what really happened that night, when Quinn came upon a confusing and treacherous crime scene. Along the way they confront the kingpins of a flourishing drug trade and some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel.

Author: George P. Pelecanos
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 02/23/2011
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780316099295
ISBN10: 0316099295
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Police Procedural
- Fiction | Thrillers | General
- Fiction | African American & Black | Mystery & Detective

About the Author
George Pelecanos is the bestselling author of twenty novels set in and around Washington, D.C. He is also an independent film producer, and a producer and Emmy-nominated writer on the HBO series The Wire, Treme, and The Deuce. He lives in Maryland.