Title: Embarassingly bad
Product review: Political correctness rules and ruins this lumpy and uneven book. Reads like an extra credit assignment for a corporate diversity seminar. It is also, despite some well-written parts, full of clunky and awkward prose like the opening of Chapter 26: "The next morning saw a buzz of activity in the Violent Crimes Bureau offices. Two bodies had dropped overnight, and assignments and pairings were being discussed." Yes, and passages of the novel were being written in the tedious passive voice.The attempt at street talk does not ring true, the plot is rusty, and the whole thing is unconvincing. I thought Pelecanos was getting better, but this represents several steps backward.
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