D.C. Noir

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Pelecanos eyeballing the author at D.C. Noir reading in Washington, 2006

George Pelecanos kindly invited me to contribute a story to the DC Noir collection. I fell back on my interest in sex trafficking and gave him "Capital of the World," about a Moldovan girl  trafficked in Europe and finally in Washington, D.C

"In the two best stories, Jim Patton's cop/bodyguard gets in trouble and a prostitute from Macedonia finds abrupt and unexpected salvation in Chinatown, and Laura Lippman's DC hostess...," etc.---Kirkus Reviews