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As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of 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.
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A Drink Before the War, Dennis Lehane
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- Released
- 2011
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dennis Lehane
- Publisher
- Perennial
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0062049100
- ISBN13
- 9780062049100
- Series
- Kenzie & Gennaro
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Politics, Suspense, USA, Murders, American Literature, Detective Fiction, Detective, Crime Series, America, Race, Racism, Cults, Corruption, Private Detective, Boston
- First published
- 1994
- Original title
- A Drink Before the War
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of 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.