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Language English Publication date 2000 Originally published 2000 Genre Crime Fiction Country United States of America | 3.9/5 Goodreads Series D.C. Quartet Pages 299 pp Publisher Little, Brown and Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) ISBN 0-316-69523-8 (Hardcover first edition) Preceded by The Big Blowdown, The sweet forever Similar Works by George Pelecanos, Nick Stefanos mystery books, Crime Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shame the Devil is a 2000 crime novel written by George Pelecanos. It is set in Washington DC and focuses on a botched robbery and its consequences. It is the last of four books comprising the D.C. Quartet. The other books in this series are The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, and The Sweet Forever.
Plot introduction
Two ruthless killers head into a pizza place to rob the joint while one of the men's brother waits in the car. The robbery goes wrong and the men kill the restaurant's employees. The robber in the getaway car is killed by a cop and the robbers hit a little boy in their escape.
The novel jumps forward two and a half years and introduces the character of Dimitri Karras, the father of the young boy. He attends grief counseling sessions with the family members of those who were killed that day. Karras begins to get used to living again when his friend, Nick Stefanos sets him up with a job at, "The Spot" where he is bar tender. Meanwhile, the robbers are plotting revenge. It all leads up to a showdown of good versus evil.