Hell to Pay
Little, Brown and Company, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth & Boards. Fine / Fine in Plastic Cover. Item #5308
ISBN: 0316695068
A fine unread First Edition, First Printing, signed by the author on the title page at a local bookstore, thus ensuring the authenticity of the signature. In grey and black cloth & boards in a fine colorful dustjacket in protective plastic cover. A bright, clean and new copy. Crime novel "Hell to Pay" follows his recurring characters Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, who also appeared in his highly acclaimed "Right as Rain."
Pelecanos is also an award-winning journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in Mojo, Uncut, The Washington Post, and many other publications. In addition to his writing, he has served as a producer on several films, including John Woo’s "The Killer." He was a staff writer and story editor for HBO’s "The Wire," and co-created "The Deuce" and "We Own This City."
In 2008, he spoke with Jordan E. Rosenfeld for Writer’s Digest about his path to becoming a writer: “Getting into my teens I got away from reading completely. I led a pretty active life out on the streets, and I was a movie freak. So when I got around to going to college at the University of Maryland—because it was affordable—I became a film major there. By my senior year I needed to take an elective class to graduate. I took ‘Hardboiled Detective Fiction.’ What turned me on was not the mystery or crime aspect of it per se; it was that [the] books were about people I recognized—working-class people. It was populist literature that wasn’t written to go over people’s heads or to impress academics. It was written for the people it was about, and it changed my goals. I decided then that it was what I wanted to do. It took me 10 years of living some more, though. In that 10 years I just read everything I could—a couple books a week.”
Pelecanos later wrote the short story “The No-Knock” after experiencing a police raid at his home in August 2009. (No-knock warrants are banned in Oregon, Virginia, Florida, and Tennessee.) He spoke to NPR’s Morning Edition on February 5, 2024, about the experience, stating: “They don’t accomplish anything except mayhem and violence."
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