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Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way.
Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.
- Sales Rank: #953825 in Books
- Published on: 2012-01-23
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .75" w x 5.50" l, .50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 246 pages
Review
a taut, lyrical, nostalgic look at times gone by and the morality which remains. CATHOLIC HERALD
About the Author
George Pelecanos is the author of several highly praised and bestselling novels, including The Cut, What It Was, The Way Home, The Turnaround, and The Night Gardener. He is also an independent-film producer, an essayist, and the recipient of numerous international writing awards. He was a producer and Emmy-nominated writer for The Wire and currently writes for the acclaimed HBO series Treme. He lives in Maryland.
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
What it Is
By PTD
I've long been a fan of Pelecanos' work, my initiation starting with his novel RIGHT AS RAIN, and continuing along after that joyride to include his other works. I was struck from the beginning by the authenticity of his characters, the rhythm of his writing, and his powerful handling of violence. His work has a verisimilitude often absent in genre fiction. He isn't a crime novelist, he's a NOVELIST, period. I'm of the opinion that Pelecanos never makes a wrong note. I've read SHOEDOG, one of his lesser known novels, more than a handful of times. Now, to his latest work. I was pleasantly surprised to discover a new Pelecanos shortly on the heels of THE CUT, his hardcover released late last year (another gem, by the way). The surprise was then elevated upon learning that this newest novel would return to the world of Derek Strange, a character I've grown to love. But then, I love all of the characters in Pelecanos' world, from Nick Stefanos, to Terry Quinn, to...well, you get the point. This newest novel gripped me from page one and never let up steam. Written in scenes both cinematic and rhythmic (vignettes)told from the points of view of several characters, WHAT IT WAS is a study in how a crime novel should be written. Violent but emotionally satisfying, poignant in its rendering of the human condition (here you have the criminal perspective, the police perspective, the private investigator perspective, the girlfriends riding shotgun with their criminal boyfriends perspective--all handled with aplomb). To say that Pelecanos is a master is an understatement. I'd read a new book every month from him. Kudos.
Phillip Thomas Duck
author of Triage: A Thriller (Shell Series)
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Blisteringly Good
By Erin
Much of the attention around George Pelecanos' new book, WHAT IT WAS, has focused on the quite brilliant way that the good folks at Mulholland Books are publishing and marketing it. In case you haven't read about it, instead of the standard e-book and hardcover release followed months later by a paperback edition, WHAT IT WAS is available now as a 99-cent e-book, a trade paperback for $9.99, or a limited-edition, signed and slip-cased hardcover for $35.
I think this is quite brilliant, but the reality is that it wouldn't matter a whit if the story contained on the paper or e-pages wasn't up to snuff. Luckily for us all, WHAT IS WAS is one of Pelecanos' best, second only to RIGHT AS RAIN in my estimation.
WHAT IT WAS is set in 1972. Derek Strange has hung out his private investigator shingle. His former partner, Frank Vaughn, is still on the force. Red "Fury" Jones, a villain for the ages, is wreaking havoc in Washington DC, which Pelecanos brings to life in a manner that makes the reader quite certain she was actually there.
Many have called WHAT IT WAS noir, and I'm sure the label fits, but for me, it's much more than noir. Derek Strange has been a favorite character for years and for him to remain surprising and engaging is testament to Pelecanos' awesome storytelling prowess. Pelecanos obviously respects his setting, character and stories because he shortchanges none of them. Even the ancillary characters--like Red's girlfriend and sidekick or Strange's mistress or mom--are so vivid that I wouldn't have been surprised to have any one of them knock on my front door (ok, a little surprised, but you know what I mean).
Pelecanos has always been unapologetic in his storytelling, both in his books and on TV shows "The Wire" and "Treme." WHAT IT WAS continues this tradition, and I hope he never gives this up. WHAT IT WAS doesn't flinch at violence or human frailty; on the contrary, it celebrates both.
This will sound frivolous to some, but I have to also commend Pelecanos for telling a complete and complex tale in less than 300 pages. In a world where publishers put authors under contract to deliver stories that run to 400 pages and more even when they don't need to be, WHAT IT WAS is exactly the length it needs to be. It includes not one extraneous word, scene or plot element.
If you've never read Pelecanos, WHAT IT WAS is a fine place to start. While the books featuring Derek Strange are a series, they're not bound by elements of surprise that make reading them in order necessary.
Come this time next year, I expect to have seen WHAT IT WAS on plenty of Best of 2012 lists. I know it will be on mine. It is blisteringly good.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Enough already with the music and cars
By Tracy Rosselle
George Pelecanos is among my favorite crime novelists, but this effort clearly lacks the heft of his full-blown novels. I stumbled onto it at a bookstore, not knowing or expecting he had a new one coming out. At first I thought it was a re-issue from years earlier or something. That it came out in paperback without first appearing in hardback signals its difference: Figuring in the relatively large font and slim page count, the novel is probably half the length of The Turnaround or The Night Gardener. I was pleased that it featured (a younger version of) the Derek Strange character; I really enjoyed the trilogy of books featuring the PI beginning with Right as Rain. But I was constantly annoyed with Pelecanos' all-too-frequent descriptions of music and cars. He's always done this, and when used sparingly it helps to set a scene and mood, and in this case create verisimilitude in a novel set in 1972. But his editor was asleep on this one; needed to rein in at least half of this nonsense, because it starts to get in the way of the reader's enjoyment of the story. Elmore Leonard says when he's editing his own stuff that if it sounds to him like writing, then he rewrites it. I'm not sure what Pelecanos is doing with all the music and car details, but it must have to do with something other than the story (like conveying his personal taste in such things). He should take some advice from Leonard and rewrite it before foisting it on readers.
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