George P Pelecanos
22) Shoedog
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Constantine, a drifter, hitches a lift from a driver who stops en route to collect some money. But the man who owes it doesn't have it, so he enrolls the two of them in a plot to rob a liquor store. What follows is robbery, a doublecross and Constantine's vengeance.
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Michael Hudson acaba de salir de la cárcel. Se ha librado de una condena larga gracias a Phil Ornazian, un detective que ha movido los hilos para que retiren la denuncia que pesaba sobre el chico. Decidido a reformarse, Michael quiere buscar un trabajo honrado y llevar una vida tranquila en Washington D. C. Pero Ornazian quiere que le devuelva el favor, y le presiona para que le ayude a dar un último golpe...
Michael Hudson spends the long days...
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Cuando el cuerpo de un adolescente paraece en un jardín comunitario de Washington, el detective Gus Ramone revive un caso en el que trabajó veinte años atrás. Siendo novatos, Ramone y Dan Holiday ayudaron al legendario detective Cook en la investigación de los asesinatos de tres adolescentes que aparecieron muertos en parques de la ciudad. Jamás atraparon al asesino, al que apodaron el Jardinero Nocturno. Después de aquello, Holiday abandonó...
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Chronicles the rise of the porn industry that began in New York City in 1971-72, driven by the gradual legalization of porn and a politically motivated effort to 'clean up' Times Square. Over the course of eight episodes, viewers will get an up-close look at a gritty world of sex, crime, high times and sudden violence, as the porn business begins its climb to legitimacy, cultural permanence, and billion-dollar profitability.
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"McNutty has been demoted to harbour patrol. Daniels is in the police-archive dungeon, Prez is chafing in the suburbs, and Greggs is stuck behind a desk. Meanwhile, on the docks of Baltimore harbour, the rank and fire scrounge for work and the union bosses take illegitimate measures to reinvigorate business, but a horrific discovery is about to blow the whole port inside out. While the detail is on ice, a new case begins"--Container.
28) The Pacific
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The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
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Thrilling crime stories about cars, driving, and the road from the world's bestselling and critically acclaimed writers. Like fiction, cars take us into a different world: from the tony enclaves of upper crust society to the lowliest barrio; from muscle car-driving con men to hardscrabble kids on the road during the Great Depression; from a psychotic traveling salesman to a Mexican drug lord who drives a tricked-out VW Bus. We all share the roads,...