Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay straight. After eight years in prison on a drug charge, he’s come “uptown”—back to the Washington, DC neighborhood where he grew up, where his old cohorts still work their corners and their angles, trying to...
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Автор: Пелеканос Джордж
Серия: Derek Strange and Terry Quinn #2
Язык: английский
Год: 2002
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