It’s not easy when his soul brothers are constantly telling him he’s sold out to the Man and his biological brother Dennis has graduated from the Navy reserve to serious addiction and a seriously bad crowd headlined by casual killer Alvin Jones and his cousin Kenneth Willis. Nine years later, once his old friends have acquired women and TVs on the installment plan, Derek is doing his best to protect and to serve. No, it’s 1959: Before Strange is ready to don a Metro Police Department uniform, he has to bond as a 13-year-old with Billy Georgelakos, tell Carmen Hill she’s pretty, and get caught shoplifting by a hard-nosed security guard who briskly sets him back on the straight and narrow and consigns his no-goodnik companions, Dominic and Angelo Martini, to a hopeless slide downward. Pelecanos’s latest Extra Dark slice of Washington street crime leaps back a generation to connect the backstory of private eye Derek Strange ( Soul Circus, 2003, etc.) to the murder of Martin Luther King.
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