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01 The Big Blowdown

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by George Pelecanos


  Stefanos looked out across the water. “Karras and the Italos…sure, I know what happened. Those two, they didn’t know enough to get off the bus.”

  “What?”

  “Nothin’. It’s just a story.” Stefanos stood straight. “C’mon, let’s take a little walk around the speedway, re. That okay with you?”

  “Me?” said Costa. “I don’t give a damn nothing.”

  Nick Stefanos picked up the boy, who was also named Nick Stefanos, and the three of them walked over the lush green grass, passing a Negro couple who sat together, their arms intertwined, in the shade of a flowering tree.

  About the Author

  GEORGE P. PELECANOS was born in Washington, D.C., in 1957. A graduate of the University of Maryland, he held a variety of jobs, including electronics salesman, bartender, shoe salesman, and construction worker, before getting involved in the film industry. He recently finished producing his first feature film, Caught. In 1992, he published his first Nick Stefanos mystery novel, A Firing Offense, and has subsequently published two other mysteries—Nick’s Trip and Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go—as well as one crime novel, Shoedog. He now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Emily, and their two sons, Nicholas and Peter.

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Title Page

  Description

  Praise

  More Books

  Dedication

  Copyright

  Introduction

  PROLOGUE

  ONE Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  TWO Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  THREE Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  FOUR Chapter 15

  FIVE Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  SIX Chapter 41

  About the Author

 

 

 


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