[D.C. Quartet 02] • King Suckerman · Roman

It's the week leading up to the Bicentennial celebration in Washington, D.C.,

and King Suckerman is the hot new blaxploitation film that's got everyone

talking. Small-time dealer Dimitri Karras and his friend, record-store owner

Marcus Clay, are out looking to score some weed when they stumble in on a big

deal gone bad -- and pick up some cash that isn't theirs. Pursued by a

trigger-happy gangster looking to settle the score, Dimitri and Marcus

suddenly find that they're players in a savage game of cross and double-

cross....

Brilliantly evoking the retrocool of seventies music, clothes, and movies,

King Suckerman is bold, real, and violent -- a supercharged thriller in the

hardboiled tradition of Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Pulp Fiction. Here is

George Pelecanos's strongest work to date -- a book that is certain to win him

a whole new audience of admirers.