Download The Martini Shot: A Novella and Stories AudioBook Free
Short testimonies and a novella in one of crime fiction's most revered writers. Whether they're cops or conmen, savage killers or creative types, gangsters or God-fearing individuals, George Pelecanos's character types are always employed in a fight for his or her lives. They deal with to advance or just to endure; they fight odds, against foes, even against themselves. In this, his first assortment of testimonies, the acclaimed novelist presents visitors to a brilliant and eclectic cast of combatants. A practiced claims investigator monitors a supposedly inactive man from Miami to Brazil, and then be thrown off his game by a kid from the local slum. An increasing age loser requires a previous stab at respectability by becoming a authorities informant. A Greek-American few adopts an interracial trio of sons and then struggles to keep their family along, presenting us a stirring bit of background on one of Pelecanos's most much loved protagonists, Spero Lucas. Within the title novella - which takes its name from Hollywood slang for the last shot of your day, the the one that comes before the liquor shots start - we go behind the views of a tv cop show, in which a writer gets swept up in a episode more real than anything he may have conjured for a script. By changes heartbreaking and humane, brutal and funny, these finely constructed tales expose the violence and striving under the surface of any city and within any human heart. Tough, naughty, fast-paced, and crackling with energy, The Martini Shot is Pelecanos at his absolute best.
