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Article: PREVIEW/ George Pelecanos
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- April 18, 2005
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IN his gritty crime fiction, writer George Pelecanos inhabits a
part of America most never see.
Far from the opulence of the White House, he writes about
Washington's dirty underbelly - its bent cops, cocaine trade and
devastating poverty.
After giving up his retail day job, aged 29, Pelecanos published
his first book in 1992 and has since gone on to become one of the
world's foremost ...