The Way Home

With pace, punch and depth to spare, The Way Home will satisfy old admirers and hook the newcomers. – Boyd Tonkin * INDEPENDENT *A typically assured performance … notable for Pelecanos’s mastery of teen talk * SUNDAY TIMES *His pitiless concentration on how minor decisions end up making huge differences, and how two generations of a family try, and fail, to understand each other, makes this a riveting read * GUARDIAN *‘Achieves a gripping balance between social comment and the suspense of a great thriller’ * UNCUT *A masterly study of fathers and sons. Pelecanos, who worked on the TV show The Wire, has a gift for characterisation and location - in this case Washington DC. The result is that rare thing: a gripping thriller that is also intensely moving * LONDON EVENING STANDARD *Who is the best crime writer working today? I can think of a raft of serious contenders for second place, but in my view the winner by a clear head has to be George Pelecanos. – Simon Shaw * MAIL ON SUNDAY *

George Pelecanos is the author of fifteen previous crime novels set in and around the Washington area. He is an award-winning, Emmy-nominated journalist, screenwriter and producer. He also manages Circle Films, responsible for such films as the Coen Brothers’ Raising Arizona, Miller’s Crossing and Barton Fink. Pelecanos lives in Maryland with his family.