In today's NY Times Book Review section, Marilyn Stasio gave
a mini-review of George Pelacanos's "Shame The Devil," which
I include below in its entirety:
As a way of announcing the
truth-telling theme of
his new crime novel, George P.
Pelecanos opens SHAME
THE DEVIL (Little, Brown,
$24.95) with a stylishly
choreographed but extremely raw
scene of urban
violence -- a 1995 robbery in a
Washington pizza
parlor that leaves five people
dead, including one
of the gunmen and a little boy
who just happened to
get in the way. Even harder to
take are the scenes
that occur three years later,
in the pathetic
support group of family
survivors who meet each week
to share the never-ending pain
of loss and, in a
cruel but suspenseful plot
turn, to protect
themselves from the killers,
who are back for
vengeance. Pelecanos is one of
those dangerous
writers who aren't afraid to
take risks, so there's
a merciless reality to his
characters and a cold
clarity about the way they
talk, think and feel.
Whatever their flaws, none of
the people in this
writer's world are ashamed to
tell the truth.
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