The Washington Post, July 25th, 1995
What George Pelecanos really did in his first book -- besides drag appliance salesman/bartender/private eye Nick Stefanos and a few other lively characters through the hell of Washington's mean streets -- was write a love letter to the nation's capital. His protagonist spends afternoons at the National Portrait Gallery to clear his head, ruminates on neighborhood bars in Southeast "where a man can get lost and smoke cigarettes down to the filter and drink beer backed with whiskey," visits the Clover Adams memorial in Rock Creek Cemetery, hikes up Sugarloaf Mountain, does some reading in the Wa...
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