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Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 352 Publisher: Little Own Derek Strange is A black ex-cop in Washington DC who now makes a living running his own private detective agency He is Hired to investigate the killing of an off- duty black policeman by a white police officer - a killing that was supposedly accidental. but that has opened difficult questions about racism on the force. In the course of that investigation the white officer. Terry Quinn. becomes Strange's friend and then his partner. Together they try to uncover what really happened that night. when Quinn came upon a confusing and treacherous crime scene. Along the way they confront the kingpins of a flourishing drug trade and some of the most implacable. dead-eyed killers ever to grace the pages of a novel.
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It was late at night and everyone was shouting, when off-duty black cop Chris Wilson was shot dead by his colleague Terry Quinn; middle-aged black private eye and ex-cop Strange is hired by Wilson's mother to find out exactly what happened--Wilson ended up being blamed for his own death and she wants her son's name cleared. Strange finds himself taking to Quinn, a bright young man with anger-management issues; Quinn himself is anxious to find out what caused the misunderstanding and shooting that ended Wilson's life and Quinn's career. Right as Rain is an intelligent thriller because it offers no especially easy answers--Quinn is so little a racist that he falls easily into a friendship with Strange, enough of a friendship that he will from time to time make crass assumptions. And meanwhile Pelecanos lets us see enough of the drug-dealing underground of Washington DC and the near-terminal decline of Wilson's junkie sister Sondra that we know there are revelations to come. Pelecanos is good on male friendship and the things that keep people sane--Strange is a richly imagined smart cautious man who puts himself in serious danger for what is right. --Roz Kaveney
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"One of the best."
--Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of the Coughlin series
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