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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

THE SWEET FOREVER
By: George Pelecanos

Dell
August 1999
On Sale: August 10, 1999
Featuring: Marcus Clay; Dimitri Karras
384 pages
ISBN: 044023493X
EAN: 9780440234937
Paperback (reprint)
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It's March madness. And the college boys are playing basketball on TV. But on the streets of D.C., the homeboys are dealing, dissing, dying. From behind plate glass, with an 80s backbeat pounding in his brain, Marcus Clay watches it all happen, and prays that he can make a go with his downtown record store. Then a car comes careening down U Street. And what Marcus sees next will plunge him into the middle of a war.

A drug runner is decapitated in the crash. A bystander—a white boy desperate to buy a woman's love—snatches a bag of cash from the wreck. And a prince of crime wants it back. . . .

For Marcus's buddy, Dimitri Karras, the mayhem is a chance to make a score. For a pair of dirty cops it's a chance to get free. And for dozens of lives swept up into the maelstrom, it's just another springtime in America's capital, where the game is played for keeps . . .