Summary
George Pelecanos: Capital of violence Lorenzo Brown just wants to stay clean. After eight years in prison for drugs, he returned to his neighborhood in Washington DC, the neighborhood where he grew up and where his old associates are still active in their efforts to thrive and survive. But he is fed up with such a life. He has a job in animal welfare. On the same streets where he once represented danger, he now represents order. Some of his former friends are not happy about that. Rachel Lopez, the police officer who supervises him during his probation, tries to help him while simultaneously battling the ghosts of his dark past on a daily basis. Both might succeed, it seems, until a young assassin working for a powerful local dealer turns things around with one violent act. Lorenzo is now caught between the dark and the light side of the street and struggles to stay strong or to throw everything away for revenge.
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