King Suckerman (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316695909)

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.

Author: George P. Pelecanos
ISBN-10: 0316695904
ISBN-13: 9780316695909
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1997
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.26w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/1997 pg. 1407
Publishers Weekly 06/30/1997 pg. 65
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/1997 pg. 830
Booklist 08/01/1997 pg. 1885
Library Journal 08/01/1997 pg. 134
Booklist 04/15/1998 pg. 1360