[Derek Strange & Terry Quinn 01] • Blanc Comme Neige

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. 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. In

RIGHT AS RAIN George Pelecanos introduces a memorable new pair of characters

into the grittily real Washington DC landscape which has led to him being

acclaimed as 'a great writer' (The Times) who 'deserves to be listed among the

best' (Observer).