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Drink Before the War by Dennis Lehane (2003, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100156029022
ISBN-139780156029025
eBay Product ID (ePID)2483664
Product Key Features
Book TitleDrink before the War
Number of Pages300 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicThrillers / General, Mystery & Detective / General, Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Publication Year2003
GenreFiction
AuthorDennis Lehane
Book SeriesPatrick Kenzie/Angela Gennaro Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-047832
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsPRAISE FOR A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR "Harsh and chilling . . . An absolutely terrific story."-The Boston Sunday Globe "The superb detective novels of Dennis Lehane . . . became a kind of lifeline for me."-Stephen King
Series Volume NumberBk. 1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisThis highly acclaimed first novel introduces an intrepid pair of tough Boston private investigators, Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. The duo are confronted by a cadre of powerful Boston politicos offering big money to locate a missing cleaning woman. As the investigation unfolds, the partners are soon drawn into the deadly crossfire among warring political factions., 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 the 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., Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South Boston-they know it as only natives can. Working out of an old church belfry, Kenzie and Gennaro take on a seemingly simple assignment for a prominent politician: to uncover the whereabouts of Jenna Angeline, a black cleaning woman who has allegedly stolen confidential state documents. Finding Jenna, however, is easy compared to staying alive once they've got her. The investigation escalates, implicating members of Jenna's family and rival gang leaders while uncovering extortion, assassination, and child prostitution extending from bombed-out ghetto streets to the highest levels of government. A Drink Before the War, the first in Lehane's acclaimed series with Boston detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, is a remarkable debut that is at once a pulsating crime thriller and a mirror of our world, one in which the worst human horrors are found closest to home, and the most vicious obscenities are committed in the name of love.
LC Classification NumberPS3562.E426D75 2003
