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Right As Rain Character Analysis

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Derek Strange & Terry Quinn is a series of detective mystery novels by renowned detective mystery fiction author George P. Pelecanos. The first novel in the series was the 20001 published Right as Rain. The lead characters in the series are the title characters Terry Quinn and Derek Strange. Derek Strange is a private investigator and former police officer who now works locating missing children, doing background checks, and trailing cheating spouses. His private investigations business, which has been in operation for a quarter of a century is aptly, titled Strange Investigations. Strange’s partner is Terry Quinn also an ex-cop of Irish extraction with brown hair, freckles on his nose, green eyes of and of medium build. When he is not working …show more content…

Strange gets a visit from an old woman whom he attends church with, who wants him to investigate the fatal shooting of her son by Terry Quinn. Given that Chris Wilson was a black officer killed by a white one, his mother suspects foul …show more content…

When two ex-police officers decide to engage in some high powered private investigations, they uncover some of the darkest secrets of the police force that have always been swept under the carpet. The novel brings to the fore the violence and institutionalized racism in the US police force as never before. Soul Circus the third novel in the series is a popular moving, gritty and bleak story of life and death in the United States capital of Washington. Terry Quinn teams up with Derek Strange to run a private investigations company in the black ghettos of Washington D.C. The two detectives are quite good at their job and when they get an assignment to find a missing girl, they quickly find her. However, their investigations also cause the murder of a young mother making them question the morality of earning a living in such circumstances. However taking up more jobs due to their notoriety, they are soon enveloped in the darkness of the ghettoes. They take on drug dealers, crime lords, gunrunners, and ordinary people unable to escape the criminal

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