The Double, George Pelecanos
The Double, George Pelecanos
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The Double

Author: George Pelecanos

Narrator: Dion Graham

Unabridged: 7 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2013


Synopsis

Every man has his dark side . . . Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of America's best-loved crime writers.

The job seems simple enough: retrieve the valuable painting -- "The Double" -- Grace Kinkaid's ex-boyfriend stole from her. It's the sort of thing Spero Lucas specializes in: finding what's missing, and doing it quietly. But Grace wants more. She wants Lucas to find the man who humiliated her -- a violent career criminal with a small gang of brutal thugs at his beck and call.

Lucas is a man who knows how to get what he wants, whether it's a thief on the run -- or a married woman. In the midst of a steamy, passionate love affair that he knows can't last, in pursuit of a dangerous man who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, Lucas is forced to decide what kind of man he is -- and how far he'll go to get what he wants.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on February 13, 2014

I'm in a few week period where I can read anything I'd like, and I have been using that time to read new books that I am not necessarily all that excited for. For a change I decided, I'm going to read something I've been meaning to read and that I'll enjoy and life will be good. So I picked The Doub......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on August 18, 2015

Dan has a theory that Spero Lucas is the illegitimate son of Travis McGee, and considering the similarities between the two, this seems like a reasonable scenario. Both are ex-military guys who eschew the traditional American lifestyle of steady jobs and families so that they can live on their own te......more

Goodreads review by Brandon on September 09, 2015

A friend of a friend, Grace Kinkaid, comes to Spero with a job: steal back a painting that a con-man recently walked off with. Having disappeared from her life as mysteriously as he appeared, Grace needs to know who he is and if he’s pulling the same tricks with others. Can Spero track down the scum......more

Goodreads review by Jill on October 10, 2013

The Double, the latest novel by George Pelecanos, features a decent plot and some interesting characters. It is fast-paced and rather suspenseful. In this book, Pelecanos brings back his character Spero Lucas (previously featured in The Cut. Spero, just turned 30, is an Iraq war veteran who puts to......more

Goodreads review by William on December 22, 2017

Although I like Dion Graham as an actor the inner city dialect of this narration is not something that held my attention. I might focused on the story more had I read the book.......more