Shoedog, George Pelecanos
Shoedog, George Pelecanos
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Shoedog

Author: George Pelecanos

Narrator: Dan Woren

Unabridged: 7 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2013


Synopsis

In a hardboiled noir mystery by the creator of The Wire, a Washington, D.C. liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to be a shoedog—a tale that throbs with soul and pulsates with menace."Haunting, gritty ... an exceptional, memorable book." —Booklist Constantine was born in D.C. and has been traveling the world ever since—finding everything but a home. Randolph has stayed in this city every day, selling shoes, taking care of ladies who lie about their sizes—and sometimes fit him into their beds. Now, these two strangers—one white, one Black—have come together in a criminal's audacious plan. With five partners and the hit ready to go down, Constantine doesn't understand the treacheries, feuds, and fantasies swirling around him—and he's fallen for a woman who only doubles his risk. But Randolph, a self-professed "shoedog", can sniff trouble a mile away. And when the shooting starts, he'll give Constantine a chance to live—or die where he was born.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on July 28, 2018

Does anyone write moral ambiguity as perfectly as George Pelecanos? Does anyone move as fluidly between great TV drama and great crime fiction as he does? Pelecanos is a rarity -- and as a reader and viewer, I am so glad he does what he does.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on March 01, 2015

George Pelecanos has mentioned before in interviews that with Shoedog, one of his earliest novels, he wanted to write a no-frills noir thriller that was a send-up to the old paperback pulps that could be read in one afternoon. With me, he succeeded. Shoedog starts off blazing, with a tour-de-force 2......more

Goodreads review by Ellis on April 03, 2014

Shoedog! You know, for a book named Shoedog, I was really hoping that it'd actually be about the man Shoedog instead of some random guy named Constantine who I've never heard of before. Although the back of my book claims that because I love Nick Stefanos I should also love Constantine, he failed to......more

Goodreads review by Adam on May 08, 2010

Shoedog is Pelecanos’s pulp novel, a straightforward heist gone story. Of course he lingers on the characters more than other authors might, bringing some emotional weight to this romantic, gritty, and ultra violent tale of double crosses and revenge. This lacks the narrative genius of Sallis’s simi......more

Goodreads review by Donald on January 27, 2014

I think even if I read this title myself, I would of been bored.......more