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Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" ( USA Today ) At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack... read more

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STRIKE SPOTTED HER: baby fat, baby face, Shanelle or Shanette, fourteen years old maybe, standing there with that queasy smile, trying to work up the nerve.

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  1. Richard Price (Author)
 

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