Right As Rain Av George Pelecanos

<p><b>The first in the excellent Strange and Quinn series from ''The coolest writer in America'' GQ.</b><br><br>Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation''s most poorly trained and dangerous police force.<br><br>As the two private detectives confront the degradation of the city''s flourishing drug trade, they find themselves up against some of the most implacable, dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel.<br><br>In RIGHT AS RAIN George Pelecanos introduces a memorable pair of characters into the grittily real Washington DC landscape which has led to him being acclaimed as ''a great writer'' THE TIMES</p>