Used Book – Soul Circus, George Pelecanos, François Lasquin, Lise Dufaux

In Washington, there's a lot of talk about the Granville Oliver trial. This drug lord is accused of murder by his former right-hand man, Phillip, and he faces the death penalty. His lawyers call on detective Derek Strange to find Wood's ex-girlfriend. If she testifies at the trial, everything could change... Strange, for whom capital punishment is intolerable, is not fooled by Oliver's misdeeds. But you don't always choose your clients. Adulated by his peers (Michael Connelly, Elmore Leonard, Dennis Lehane), Pelecanos shows his full measure here: that of a master of dialogue. And a moralist as alien to "political correctness" as to the tainted charm of the underworld.