Shame the Devil

George Pelecanos · first published 2000 · ISBN 9780440236351

The final volume of the D.C. Quartet moves into the 1990s, following both new characters and echoes of the previous novels. The story centers on a young man trying to escape his circumstances and the cycle of violence around him, even as a cold, brutal killer closes in. It's Pelecanos' fullest expression of how the choices of earlier decades reverberate forward, and how survival sometimes means sacrifice.