About the Author
George Pelecanos is the author of several highly praised and bestselling novels, including The Double, The Cut, What It Was, The Way Home, The Turnaround, and The Night Gardener. He is also an independent-film producer, an essayist, and a producer and Emmy-nominated writer for the HBO series The Wire and Treme. He lives in Maryland.
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Also by George Pelecanos
The Double
The Cut
What It Was
The Way Home
The Turnaround
The Night Gardener
Drama City
Hard Revolution
Soul Circus
Hell to Pay
Right as Rain
Shame the Devil
The Sweet Forever
King Suckerman
The Big Blowdown
Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go
Shoedog
Nick’s Trip
A Firing Offense
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
The Confidential Informant
Chosen
String Music
When You’re Hungry
Miss Mary’s Room
Plastic Paddy
The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us
The Martini Shot
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by George Pelecanos
Newsletters
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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“When You’re Hungry” first appeared in Unusual Suspects (Vintage Crime, 1996); “String Music” first appeared in Murder at the Foul Line (Mysterious Press, 2006); “The Confidential Informant” first appeared in D.C. Noir (Akashic Books, 2006); “The Dead Their Eyes Implore Us” first appeared in Measures of Poison (Dennis McMillan Publications, 2002); “Plastic Paddy” first appeared in Men from Boys (William Heinemann Ltd., 2003); “Chosen” first appeared in the ebook edition of The Cut (Reagan Arthur Books, 2011).
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