A Drink Before the War

Name: A Drink Before the War (eBook)
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Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro Series1

A Drink Before the War

Dennis Lehane

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Description

The mesmerizing, darkly
original novel that heralded the arrival of now New York Times
bestselling author Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introduced
Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators
weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.

A cabal of powerful Boston
politicians is willing to pay Kenzie and Gennaro big money for a seemingly
small job: to find a missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. As
Kenzie and Gennaro learn, however, this crime is no ordinary theft. It's about
justice, about right and wrong. But in Boston, finding the truth isn’t just a
dirty business . . . it’s deadly.

Genres

Private InvestigatorsMystery & DetectiveHard-BoiledCrimeFictionSuspenseThrillersLiteraryPolice ProceduralCrimeInternational Crime & MysteryTraditionalHistorical

Released2010

LanguageEnglish

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN9780062015655

SellerHarperCollins

About the author(s)

Dennis Lehane is the author of thirteen novels—including the New York Times bestsellers Live by Night; Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day—as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He grew up in Boston, MA and now lives in California with his family.

Reviews

“[Lehane] deserves to be included among the most interesting and accomplished American novelists of any genre or category.” - Washington Post Book World

“Mr. Lehane’s detective goes where few gumshoes have gone before. . . . This is good, serious stuff.” - New York Times Book Review

“[Lehane is] a hard-boiled heavyweight, pounding out work as emotionally complex and genre-bending as that of James Lee Burke or James Crumley. . . . In Lehane’s books, everyone grows up but no one escapes.” - Entertainment Weekly

“Harsh and chilling. . . . An absolutely terrific story.” - Boston Sunday Globe

“Dennis Lehane is the heir apparent. You read his stuff and think he’s got the great ones—Chandler, MacDonald, Parker—watching over him as he writes every page. But his voice is an original.” - Michael Connelly