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The Double
The Double | George P. Pelecanos
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Every man has his dark side...Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers. The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting--"The Double"--Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her--a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call. Lucas is a man who knows how to get what he wants, whether it's a thief on the run--or a married woman. In the midst of a steamy, passionate love affair that he knows can't last, in pursuit of a dangerous man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, Lucas is forced to decide what kind of man he is--and how far he'll go to get what he wants.
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The Double | George P. Pelecanos
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Look at those endorsements! Award winning writer of The Wire, Gold standard character driven crime writing, Gripping. Stephen King himself calls him “perhaps the greatest living crime writer”. Surely not! I saw no sign of any of this. Except that I fully believe that the author is used to writing for TV. It‘s like someone took a B-movie script and added internal monologue. Every scene we are told what everybody‘s wearing and other visuals.
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Leniverse I didn‘t find this book “gripping” at all, and the characters were completely forgettable. And the main character was just annoying. Only reason I didn‘t bail was that I really needed a book set in Washington D.C for a reading challenge. 5y
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