- Derek Strange (Fictitious character), Murder, Police corruption, Racism
Derek Strange is a black ex-cop in Washington D.C. who now makes a living running his own private detective agency. He is hired to investigate the killing of an off-duty black policeman by a white police officer -- a killing that was supposedly accidental, but that has opened difficult questions about racism on the force.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- George P. Pelecanos
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 359
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD, BBC Audiobooks
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, French, Spanish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9782879292717
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“WHAT Derek Strange was worried about, looking at Jimmy Simmons sitting there, spilling over a chair on the other side of his desk, was that Simmons was going to pick some of Strange's personal shit up off the desktop in front of him and start winging it across the room.”
Greek-American author. Many of his works are in the genre of detective fiction and set primarily in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He is also a film and television producer and a television writer.
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