Owning Up Av George Pelecanos

<p><b>''Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer'' Stephen King</b><br><br>After the Carusos family home is destroyed by police with a no-knock warrant, the family struggle to return to normal. <br><br>Two former inmates reunite on a TV set. They''re both back on the straight and narrow ... until one sees the potential for an easy grift. <br><br>A teenage boy must step into the man he''d like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. <br><br>A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother''s past, and awakens to the bloody history of the place she grew up. <br><br><b>Pelecanos'' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, <i>Owning Up</i> grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take.</b><br><br><b>Praise for George Pelecanos:</b><br><br>''Triple-distilled excellence. Pelecanos is the undisputed poet la