Playbill
September, 2013
Generally speaking, stories loaded with tough guys and broken laws tend to lure male readers. It's as seminal crime novelist Raymond Chandler once said, "When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand." That's exactly what happens in The Double, George Pelecanos's gritty piece of crime fiction excerpted from his forthcoming novel of the same name. T.J. English's story The New Face of Crime reads like fiction but is all too real. English recounts the recent pheno...
