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Also by George Pelecanos:

The Blue Flame, August 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Martini Shot, January 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
The Cut, September 2011
Paperback
Down By The River Where The Dead Men Go, August 2011
Paperback (reprint)
Shame The Devil, August 2011
Paperback (reprint)
Soul Circus, March 2011
Trade Size (reprint)
Hell To Pay, March 2011
Paperback (reprint)
The Way Home, January 2011
Trade Size (reprint)
The Turnaround, May 2009
Paperback (reprint)
The Turnaround, August 2008
Hardcover
The Night Gardener, August 2007
Paperback (reprint)
The Night Gardener, August 2006
Hardcover
Drama City, April 2006
Paperback
Hard Revolution, February 2005
Paperback (reprint)
The Big Blowdown, October 1999
Paperback
The Sweet Forever, August 1999
Paperback (reprint)
King Suckerman, July 1998
Paperback

HELL TO PAY
By: George Pelecanos

Derek Strange / Terry Quinn #2
Back Bay Books
March 2011
On Sale: February 23, 2011
Featuring: Derek Strange; Terry Quinn
368 pages
ISBN: 031609935X
EAN: 9780316099356
Paperback (reprint)
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Suspense | Thriller

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of investigators who made their bestselling debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. It's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s most brutal neighborhoods. Getting her to leave is harder. The two ex-cops think they know this world—but nothing in their experience has prepared them for the vengeance of Worldwide Wilson, the ruthless operator whose territory they are intruding upon.

Their mission is fractured by a violent criminal act against a young player from the neighborhood football team that Strange coaches. Tracking down the perpetrators becomes a point of honor for Strange and Quinn, and their investigation leads them deep inside the city's labyrinth of crime—and back, again, to the lethal Worldwide Wilson.

George Pelecanos's novels have earned the highest praise from crime fiction's greatest writers: "Terrific" (Elmore Leonard), "Powerful" (Michael Connelly), "The best" (Harlan Coben). This story of revenge and morality in a world with few rules makes HELL TO PAY another Pelecanos masterpiece.