George P. Pelecanos - Drama City

Lorenzo Brown loves his work. As an officer for the Humane Society, it is his job to cruise the city streets looking for dogs that are being mistreated: underfed, unclean, trained to kill. He takes pride in making their lives better. And that pride helps Lorenzo resist the pull of easier money doing the kind of work that got him a recent prison bid. Rachel Lopez loves her work, too. By day she is a parole officer, helping people, Lorenzo Brown among them, along a path back to responsibility and advancement. At night she heads for the city's hotel bars, where she can always find a man who will let her act out her damage. She loses herself in sex and drink and more.<p>But Rachel's nights are taking a toll on her days. Lorenzo knows the signs. The trouble is, he truly needs her right now. There is an eruption coming in the streets he's left behind, the kind of territorial war that takes down everyone even near it. Lorenzo needs every shred of support he can get to keep from getting sucked back into that battle

Key Information
Authors		George P. Pelecanos
Narrator		Chad Coleman
Professional Reviews
		New York Times: "[L]ean, stirring, knife-edged....Aloft with the exhilaration that sometimes fuels stand-alone thrillers, DRAMA CITY is a red-hot book about a dogcatcher."
Book Editions
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