A Drink Before The War

Dennis Lehane

A Drink Before The War
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 January 2007
Pages
336
ISBN
9780553818222

A Drink Before The War

Dennis Lehane

The first in Lehane’s electrifying crime series featuring the duo Kenzie and Gennaro.

Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are tough private investigators who know the blue-collar neighbourhoods and ghettos of Boston’s Dorchester section 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 Statehouse documents.But finding Jenna proves easy compared to staying alive. 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 state government.With slick, hip dialogue and a lyrical narrative pocked by explosions of violence, A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR confronts a city in which institutionalized bigotry and corruption are often the norm, and the true nature of ‘racial incidents’ is rarely clear. Dennis Lehan’s remarkable debut 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.

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