SWEET ETERNITY

SWEET ETERNITY

Violent, explosive, subversive, but also deeply human, G. Pelecanos' book describes in the most graphic way life in the ghettos of the American capital, where gangs and drugs reign.

Washington, March 1986. It's college basketball championship month on television. But on the streets, children deal with trade, trafficking and death. Behind the glass of the shop window, Marcus Clay watches and prays that he will succeed with the new record store he has opened in the heart of the ghetto. Then a car appears which, before it can stop on the pavement, explodes. And then Marcus will see something that will put him in the middle of a war.

SWEET ETERNITY

A steamboat is decapitated in the accident. A bystander – a white boy desperately trying to buy a woman's love – steals a bag of cash from the wrecked car. And a godfather of crime wants her back... For Markus's friend, Dimitri Karas, the massacre is an opportunity to make a good mess. For two corrupt cops, it's a chance to escape. And for dozens of lives caught up in the whirlwind, it's just another spring in America's capital, where the game is being played to the hilt.

The novel Sweet Eternity completes the DC Quartet:

• Sweeping explosion
• The king of the pavement
• Matter of honor