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Shortly prolific in recent years, Pelecanos sétait in some of his last works, detached from the urban thriller to be closer to the fictionalized social satire. In short, I found that it softened bad, because those who have read "Funky Guns," "King Suckerman" or "Soul Circus" know with what a talent he can build stifling intrigues, blatant characters of realism, the fireworks of violence; in short: the great American thriller. Fan of the first hour, so i bought editing Kindle (not great by the way) and lai eaten within hours. The author has managed to regain breath and matter and gives us a dense work, rich, sometimes beautiful. First of all the decor: Pelecanos, loves his city and we literally walking in Washington, its neighborhoods, its Anacostia River, bars and "dinners". He says his fascination but also its horror at this beautiful machine to crush human beings: gleaming facades of administrative buildings and schools and universities for black crumbling, broken system that always leaves the same side of the road . The characters then: Spero Lucas, former Marine returning from Iraq and adopted child dune Greek family (yes, Pelecanos is very attached to his origins and describes the same time its US Greco community and its characteristics) is the main character, but as often with Pelecanos, not the most interesting. Successively discover an imprisoned drug dealer who pulls the strings, distributors, young sympathetic brainless minions, garages killers pledged lovers, a former crooked cop converted into crime and his son always cop ripou also crazy young black cinema which dries the courses to see old movies, Leonidas Spero's brother, also adopted by the Greek family, black and teacher, good conscience Spero, other former Marines, brothers darme completely shattered by war and other second and third amount roles that populate this book. The plot: Simple and effective, the hero is hired by the entôlé dealer to retrieve a packet of drugs disappeared and pay in proportion to the goods recovered. Therefore no moral code for him, which will use the means that seem good to pay. Things will be more complicated course and situations take a turn that will push Spero in its moral limits. Violence is a literary tool used along with the detailed descriptions of clothing, places, persons or the use of "point of view" describing the same scene from different angles depending on the characters. The soundtrack is still about and rich, the action and the sustained pace and style is beautiful elliptical for scenes Drafting, contemplative and nostalgic for dintrospection times poetic when he described his city or his community. In short, "A walk in the night" is a great book that sees Pelecanos reconnect with the ingredients that have made him a huge contemporary American author. Lintelligence argues the talent and class in this great novel. You could read it!