Pelecanos, George <br/><br/>
Hard revolution :  a novel 
/ George Pelecanos 
 - First edition 
 - London  : Orion  , c2004 
 - 376 p.  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/> The story of two brothers - one a rookie police officer, one a recently returned Vietnam veteran - caught up in the chaos that engulfed D.C. in 1968, when riots followed the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Derek Strange is his family's straight arrow, but his older brother Dennis has always had a harder time.Home from the war and in several varieties of trouble, Dennis is in danger of making one bad decision too many.While Derek tries to be there for Dennis, no amount of brotherly love can save Dennis from Alvin Jones, a local drug dealer who draws him into his web. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780752856308 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Private investigators---Fiction<br/>Vietnam War, 1961-1975---Veterans----Fiction<br/>African American detectives----Fiction<br/>Brothers---Death---Fiction<br/>Drug traffic----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Washington, D.C.---Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Mystery fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3566.E354  / H37 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>MYS PEL