The Sweet Forever
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Synopsis
It's 1986 and Washington DC is being torn apart by the cocaine trade. The Mayor is too busy chasing coke and hookers to care, and the police force is manned by corrupt rednecks like Richard 'King' Tutt. Down in the neighborhoods, black children are shooting each other over nickel bags and the outside world just doesn't care. The only man prepared to do anything about it is Marcus Clay whose new record store - Real Right Records - is in the heart of the ghetto. Business is okay. What isn't okay is that his wife has thrown him out and his best friend, Dimitri Karras, is hitting the recreational substances way too hard.
Book details
Published
12/10/2000
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
ISBN
9781852427368
Publisher and industry reviews
UK Kirkus review
Pelecanos is a star. His novels of blacks and whites co-existing on the streets of Washington DC over the past half-century defy criticism. He's a top man at his craft, and this, his seventh book, is no exception. It's the mid-eighties and Washington is being ripped apart by the drug trade and it seems that only one man, Marcus Clay, owner of a chain of black record shops, his emplyees and two crooked cops are prepared to make a stand. Tough, streetwise, hip, cool. What more do you need to know? (Kirkus UK)
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