" Fans of The Wire or Generation Kill will find familiar reasons to dig this book - crime, decay, conflict, people, their circumstances, their reasons why and a common wish to break free of it all. Some of the turns come off telegraphed and some characters aren't that deep. The same could be said for the show Pelecanos used to write for, and it didn't ruin the results there. "
— deep, 1/18/2014