distributor of John Woo's cult classic, The Killer and Richard Bugajski's Interrogation. Young, 1996), Whatever, (Susan Skoog, 1998) and BlackMale (George and Mike Baluzy, 1999), and was the U.S. Pelecanos served as producer on the feature films Caught (Robert M. crime world.' In Entertainment Weekly, Stephen King wrote that Pelecanos is 'perhaps the greatest living American crime writer.' Pelecanos would like to note that Mr. Esquire called him 'the poet laureate of the D.C. He is an award-winning essayist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, GQ, Sight and Sound, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications.

Noir 2: The Classics, as well as The Best Mystery Stories of 2008. He served as editor on the collections D.C. His short fiction has appeared in Esquire, Playboy, and the collections Unusual Suspects, Best American Mystery Stories of 1997, Measures of Poison, Best American Mystery Stories of 2002, Men from Boys, and Murder at the Foul Line.

Hell to Pay and Soul Circus were awarded the 20 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. He has been the recipient of the Raymond Chandler award in Italy, the Falcon award in Japan, and the Grand Prix du Roman Noir in France. Pelecanos is the author of eighteen novels set in and around Washington, D.C.: A Firing Offense, Nick's Trip, Shoedog, Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go, The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever, Shame the Devil, Right as Rain, Hell to Pay, Soul Circus, Hard Revolution, Drama City, The Night Gardener, The Turnaround, The Way Home, The Cut, and What It Was. He worked as a line cook, dishwasher, bartender, and woman's shoe salesman before publishing his first novel in 1992. George Pelecanos was born in Washington, D.C., in 1957.

Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos