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Review title: poor man's Elmore Leonard
Product review: Pelecanos wants to be Elmore Leonard really bad but he ends being a Leonard lite at best. The book is really detailed screen play and not very good one either. Here is a sample of some of the annoying clichés:1. The good guys coach football to rescued or troubled kids, and their team of poor kids, in spite of their ragged uniforms etc., beats the obnoxious rich kids team.2. Of course, Pellecanos can't have the hero PI Strange be all good because that wouldn't be too old fashioned, so he has him visiting massage parlors.3. He loves his secretory (she knows about the massage parlor secret and still loves him!) and in the end proposed to her because 'he loves her and needs her' and also because 'her son needs a father figure'.This was first Pellecanos novel and it is going to be also the last.Do yourself a favor read or reread any Elmore Leonard. You will be much more satisfied.
