num_pages: 336
description: It's the week leading up to the Bicentennial celebration in Washington, D.C., and King Suckerman is the hot new blaxploitation film that's got everyone talking. Small-time dealer Dimitri Karras and his friend, record-store owner Marcus Clay, are out looking to score some weed when they stumble in on a big deal gone bad -- and pick up some cash that isn't theirs. Pursued by a trigger-happy gangster looking to settle the score, Dimitri and Marcus suddenly find that they're players in a savage game of cross and double-cross....Brilliantly evoking the retrocool of seventies music, clothes, and movies, King Suckerman is bold, real, and violent -- a supercharged thriller in the hardboiled tradition of Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Pulp Fiction. Here is George Pelecanos's strongest work to date -- a book that is certain to win him a whole new audience of admirers.
language: English
title: King Suckerman
titlecomplete: King Suckerman (D.C. Quartet, #2)
genres: Dc Comics, 20th Century, Crime, Novels, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 2427
series: D.C. Quartet
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Dell