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The<\/span> Big<\/span> Blowdown<\/span><\/a> by George P. Pelecanos<\/p>\n Trade Paperback: \u200e 314 pages First sentence…<\/p>\n Pete Karras dreamed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n Peter Karras, Joe Recevo, Jimmy Boyle and Perry Angelos are four kids growing up together in Washington, D.C. in the 1930s.\u00a0 Their lives will separate and then come back together in ways none of them could imagine.\u00a0 Boyle will become a cop and Angelos an accountant.\u00a0 Karras and Recevo will become collectors for a loan shark named Burke.<\/p>\n When Burke becomes upset with Karras’ disrespectful attitude and unwillingness to come down hard on some families struggling to repay their high interest loans, Burke orders Recevo to betray Karras.\u00a0 Recevo sets up his childhood friend and lures him into an alley where another of Burke’s goons is waiting with a baseball bat.\u00a0 Karras is badly beaten and left to survive or not.<\/p>\n Karras, Recevo and Burke along with Jimmy Boyle and Perry Angelos will cross paths again in bloody confrontation that will leave many of them dead.\u00a0 Pelecanos creates a story that has layers and substance.\u00a0 None of his characters are without flaws.\u00a0 They come across as real people.\u00a0 The “good” guys don’t always win or survive.\u00a0 If you’ve read other of Pelecanos’ novels you may recognize some characters which adds to the realism of the universe he’s created.<\/p>\n The<\/span> Big Blowdown<\/span> is another winner from George P. Pelecanos.\u00a0 It rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n The<\/span> Big Blowdown<\/span> Hardcover<\/a> Rating: The Big Blowdown by George P. Pelecanos Trade Paperback: \u200e 314 pages Publisher: \u200e Minotaur Books; First Edition (first (September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29546,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29499\/revisions\/29546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPublisher: \u200e Minotaur Books; First Edition (first (September 24, 1999)<\/p>\n\n
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