The Record Books • The Payback

Frank Farrow and Roman Otis hit a pizza shop in D.C. called May’s. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. Dozens of lives were shattered forever. Three years later, Dimitri Karras, who lost a son, has discovered the killers’ identity. The killers are coming back into town. They’ll be greeted with open arms, broken hearts, and at least one loaded gun. That’s the blurb from George P. Pelecanos’s Shame the Devil. This is a lot like that. A lot.

The Record Books : if best-selling albums had been books instead…