01741cam a2200337 i 4500 1022572919 TxAuBib 20180917120000.0 180412s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018-941171 9780316479820 0316479829 DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Pelecanos, George. The man who came uptown / George Pelecanos. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2018. 263 p. ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent rdamedia nc rdacarrier Michael Hudson spends the long days in prison devouring books given to him by the prison's librarian, a young woman named Anna who develops a soft spot for her best student. Anna keeps passing Michael books until one day he disappears, suddenly released after a private detective manipulated a witness in Michael's trial. Outside, Michael encounters a Washington, D.C. that has changed a lot during his time locked up. Once shady storefronts are now trendy beer gardens and flower shops. But what hasn't changed is the hard choice between the temptation of crime and doing what's right. Trying to balance his new job, his love of reading, and the debt he owes to the man who got him released, Michael struggles to figure out his place in this new world before he loses control. 20180917. Ex-convicts Fiction. Private investigation Fiction. Librarians Fiction. Books and reading Fiction. Mystery fiction. Washington, D.C Fiction. TXNES