Diese Serie begleitet ein ungleiches Detektivduo: Derek Strange, ein erfolgreicher und selbstbewusster Schwarzer, und Terry Quinn, ein Weißer, der sich kaum über Wasser hält. Gemeinsam jagen sie in der rauen Umgebung von Washington D.C. nach Gerechtigkeit. Ihre unterschiedlichen Weltanschauungen und Methoden führen oft zu spannenden und unerwarteten Wendungen. Die Geschichten sind voller Action, Spannung und sozialer Kommentare.
Derek Strange, ein erfolgreicher schwarzer Privatdetektiv, und Terry Quinn, ein weißer Mann in Schwierigkeiten, treffen im Mordfall eines schwarzen Polizisten aufeinander. Terry wird in ein gefährliches Spiel verwickelt, während sie versuchen, die Wahrheit zu enthüllen. Washington D.C. wird zur neuen Hauptstadt des Verbrechens.
Hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who has run away from home and started working as a prostitute, Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are forced to confront a dangerous adversary in pimp Worldwide Wilson.
Bleak, gritty and moving, Soul Circus superbly brings to life a devastating story of life and death in Washington's black ghettos. Private Investigator Derek Strange and his partner, Terry Quinn, are running a detective business in the seedy underbelly of Washington, DC when they are approached by a young man asking them to find his girlfriend who has gone missing. And so Strange and Quinn find her. Just another day? Not quite. In the grimy underworld inhabited by Strange, nothing is that simple. For Strange and Quinn's efforts have led to a young mother being brutally murdered--a devastating discovery that causes them both to question the morality by which they live. And yet at the same time they need to continue the search for another missing girl, a teenage runaway who shows up in a porn video. And who hasn't been seen since. Step by step, Strange and his partner are drawn into the darkness, confronting gunrunners, crime lords, drug dealers, and ordinary people caught up in the ruthless violence of the business. Soul Circus is a heart-stopping thriller that could only have been written by George Pelecanos, the writer who "has gone from cult favorite to acknowledged master" ( Booklist ).
Washington, D. C., 1968: Der junge schwarze Polizist Derek Strange fährt bei der Metropolitan Police mit seinem weißen Partner Streife, während sich die Atmosphäre in der Stadt immer weiter aufheizt: die Bürgerrechtsbewegung und der Marsch der Armen, die traumatisierten Rückkehrer aus Vietnam, Sex, Soul, Drogen, Morde, Unruhen und Rassismus. Inmitten dieser explosiven Gemengelage entspinnt sich ein tödliches Drama: Drei Weiße planen einen Banküberfall und ermorden einen Schwarzen, auch Dereks Bruder Dennis wird umgebracht – und in Memphis wird ein Attentat auf Martin Luther King verübt. Für Derek Strange, seine Freunde und seine Feinde ist nichts wie zuvor. Wer ist gut, wer böse – und wem kann man noch vertrauen? Die alten Kategorien gelten nicht mehr, die Welt ist komplex geworden. Und die Revolution hat gerade erst begonnen ...
Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank 'Hound Dog' Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way. Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fuelled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.