'As always the prose is just dandy; the story unfolds to the beat of the city and a jukebox of hits...Pelecanos appears to he producing one of the great contemporary bodies of work'THE GUARDIAN
'An ability to engage his readers and create convincing characters that many supposedly more highbrow writers would kill for. And you can read him on the heach' GQ
'You can almost taste the sweat, feel the violence and love the women yourself...modern classic' JOCKEY SLUT