Summary and Reviews of Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos

Media Reviews

Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) - JC Patterson Pelecanos has brought forth a street-tough humanity as tangible as a drive-by shooting and as passionate as a Shakespearian tragedy…. Do yourself a favor, pick up a Pelecanos today.

Esquire Magazine Two cops struggling to do their jobs against the backdrop of a violent uprising Their paths collide in the middle of a full-fury revolution, in an electrifying climax to the most powerful book yet from George Pelecanos, the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world.

Newsweek - Malcolm Jones Pelecanos has the first-rate writer's ability to entertain you and break your heart on the same page.

USA Today - Carol Memmott Pelecanos's writing is as polished and exquisitely honed as the guns that wreak havoc in the neighborhoods where his novels are set.

Washington Post George Pelecanos writes with intelligence and complexity, as well as with a sober recognition of the evil at large in the world.

Washington Post Book World - Maureen Corrigan Pelecanos writes with intelligence and complexity, as well as with a sober recognition of the evil at large in the world.

Publishers Weekly Written in rich, observant prose, the novel is a brilliant study of a society tearing apart as racial tensions escalate after the King killing; no wonder some observers have pointed to Pelecanos as the kind of thriller writer who should be nominated for a National Book Award.

Booklist - Bill Ott Starred Review. Pelecanos has been justly celebrated for his noir sensibility and his gritty portraits of the streets of Washington, D.C., but he hasn't been recognized for what may be his greatest achievement redefining the art of writing serial fiction

Library Journal - Craig L Shufelt As with the previous Strange works, this is a superior crime novel from one of the genre's outstanding writers.

Kirkus Reviews The most conventionally ambitious of Pelecanos's sprawling studies of D.C. crime pat in its sociological determinism, harrowing in its portraits of each hopeless loser and the few ex-losers who escape.