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When I think of this book, I can only think of a big black dude with a cigar in his mouth shot-gunning a robot through a glass window. This is not, I think, a bad thing.

I read this because Pelcanos is a writer for The Wire, which is one of my favorite shows. The book has a lot of the same elements, but it's not nearly as good. It contains some pretty good "ghetto portraits," if that's the right phrase, but it's written at a fairly low level and the plot itself is nothing special.