The Big Blowdown is a 1996 crime novel written by George Pelecanos. It is set in Washington, D.C., and focuses on Peter Karras. It is the first of four...

Karras and Marcus Clay. In The Big Blowdown, set a generation before Karras and Clay would appear (the 1950s), Pelecanos followed the lives of dozens of D.C...

crime author George Pelecanos used it as a location in his 1996 novel The Big Blowdown, and so did Montana-born author James Grady in his 2007 novel, Mad...

The Big Blow may refer to: An 1880 storm on the Great Lakes Great Lakes Storm of 1913 Great Olympic Blowdown of 1921 Columbus Day Storm of 1962 The Big...

shot through the head in community gardens. The media dubs the crimes the "palindrome murders". TC Cook was the lead investigator at the time, and two...

Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go is a 1995 novel by American writer George Pelecanos. It is the third book of a trilogy with the same protagonist...

Natural Resources. "10 years after the big blowdown". Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016. Retrieved...

Quinn. It is the first novel to involve the characters and is followed by Hell to Pay (2002), Soul Circus (2003) and Hard Revolution (2004) The novel follows...

the last of four books comprising the D.C. Quartet. The other books in this series are The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, and The Sweet Forever. The book...

colleague. It is the first of several Pelecanos novels to feature the character and the first of a trilogy with Stefanos as the main character. The other books...

Management Plan, 1994 - accessed 09 May 2020 Lamb, Ruth, "One Year After the Big Blowdown," in: Adirondack Voices, Vol. 6, No. 1, Dec. 1996 DEC, Five Ponds Wilderness...

Jazz by James Ellroy 1998 no winner 1999 The Big Blowdown by George Pelecanos 2000-2004 no winner 2005 The Wrong Goodbye by Toshihiko Yahagi (trans....

The Great Olympic Blowdown, also called the Big Blow, was a compact, intense windstorm that struck the coast of Washington on January 29, 1921. The storm...

doing the right thing despite it not being the easiest; the novel also addresses Pelecanos's repeated theme of the "redemptive power of books". The novel...

overflowing from the top of a blowdown stack. The source of ignition was probably a running vehicle engine. The release of liquid followed the automatic opening...

since 1985 by the Bochum Crime Archive. Unlike the Friedrich Glauser Prize, which is awarded by the authors' group The Syndicate, the judges are literary...

investigates the disappearance of an old friend's wife and the murder of another friend. It is the second of several Pelecanos novels to feature the character...

Strange and Terry Quinn. The title refers to dialogue from within the novel where two young drug dealers discuss their lives. It is the third novel to involve...

efforts to locate the victim and continuing through Strange's investigation of the murders and the killings’ repercussions in the world of the DC drug trade...

of the D.C. Quartet (The Big Blowdown, King Suckerman, The Sweet Forever), when series regular Nick Stefanos sees them play at the D.C. club the Black...

bundle that is nef and big. The blowdown of any (−1)-curve on a weak del Pezzo surface is a weak del Pezzo surface of degree 1 more. The blowup of any point...

has piles of Spruce blowdown. Not all areas have this extreme of blowdown— the southern portion of the Five Ponds Wilderness on the Red Horse Chain of...

most of the blowdown process is sonic or supersonic, and therefore no wave could travel back into the cylinder against that flow. Once the exhaust pressure...

Lake and the upper Oswegatchie River. The portage is a total of 3.5 miles through blowdown of virgin timber. Big Deer Pond is noted for being a large shallow...

Containment Blowdown experiments Series I/II - where the pressure-suppression principle with a condensation pool, used by nearly all BWR-reactors in the world...

decreases. When the piston is near to BDC the exhaust valve opens. In the blowdown, the combustion gases expand irreversibly due to the leftover pressure—in...

slightly taller than the Saturn V rocket which brought the first man to the moon (110.6m) and 16 metres taller than Big Ben. In the same year, three more...

Your Mitts Off My Planet" by Katrina Onstad at nytimes.com "‘Minari’ Wins Big With North Carolina Film Critics Association, Chloé Zhao’s Directing Winning...

a Mach 1.86 blowdown nozzle on 8 August 1940. Tests at Mach numbers 1.56 and 2.5 were made after 24 September 1940.: 76–78  At launch the A4 propelled...

000 minor injuries. The blast (estimated yield of 20–40 tons of TNT, comparable in scale to the military test Operation Blowdown) was heard 80 km away...